User evaluation of lightweight user authentication with a single tri-axis accelerometer

We report a series of user studies that evaluate the feasibility and usability of light-weight user authentication with a single tri-axis accelerometer. We base our investigation on uWave, a state-ofthe-art recognition system for user-created free-space manipulation, or gestures. Our user studies address two types of user authentication: non-critical authentication (or identification) for a user to retrieve privacy-insensitive data; and critical authentication for protecting privacy-sensitive data. For non-critical authentication, our evaluation shows that uWave achieves high recognition accuracy (98%) and its usability is comparable with text IDbased authentication. Our results also highlight the importance of constraints for users to select their gestures. For critical authentication, the evaluation shows uWave achieves state-of-the-art resilience to attacks with 3% false positives and 3% false negatives, or 3% equal error rate. We also show that the equal error rate increases to 10...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: MHCI
• Authors: Jiayang Liu, Lin Zhong, Jehan Wickramasuriya, Venu Vasudevan
• Keywords: Human Computer Interaction, Light-weight User Authentication, MHCI 2009, Non-critical Authentication, User Authentication