Visible to the public Automatic Authentication of Smartphone Touch Interactions Using Smartwatch

TitleAutomatic Authentication of Smartphone Touch Interactions Using Smartwatch
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsRanjan, Juhi, Whitehouse, Kamin
Conference NameProceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct
PublisherACM
Conference LocationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-4503-4462-3
KeywordsHuman Behavior, IMU sensor, phone security, privacy, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Scalability, touch authentication, wearables, wearables security
Abstract

In this demo, we will display a smartphone authentication system that can automatically validate every touch interaction made on a smartphone using a smart watch worn by the phone's owner. The IMU sensors on a smart watch monitor the motion of the hand for specific signal characteristics, which is relayed to the phone. If the signal features match certain criteria then the touch is authenticated and the phone responds appropriately. If not, the phone's screen remains locked/unresponsive to the touch action. The challenge here is to be able to validate every touch gesture within acceptable limits of human perception.

URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2968219.2971370
DOI10.1145/2968219.2971370
Citation Keyranjan_automatic_2016