User Authentication Using Typing Gesture with Smartwatch
2023
A method for enhanced user authentication that relies on sensory data taken from a smartwatch while the user types the username and password has been explored.Eventually, these inherent gestures would work as an added layer of security to the current password-based authentication scheme in a hostile scenario assuming the username-password has been compromised.In our experiments, we recorded the 3D coordinate values given off by the accelerometer and gyroscope over a set of username-password typing combinations.For the sensor data collection, we developed an Android Wear OS smartwatch application, then proceeded to implement our method of sensor data processing and performed experiments to demonstrate the potential of this method.We experimented with 50 samples taken from five users, performed 1,800 genuine and impostor authentication attempts, and achieved an equal error rate (EER) as low as 0.07.With such low EER, the proposed method can be an effective solution to username-password breaches.