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Experiments in haptic-based authentication of humans

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With the rapid advancement of the technological revolution, computer technology such as faster processors, advanced graphic cards, and multi-media systems are becoming more affordable. Haptics technology is a force/tactile feedback technology growing in disciplines linked to human–computer interaction. Similar to the increasing complexity of silicon-based components, haptics technology is becoming more advanced. On the other hand, currently available commercial haptics interfaces are expensive, and their application is mostly dedicated to enormous research projects or systems. However, the trend of the market is forcing haptic developers to release products for use in conjunction with current keyboards and mice technologies. Haptics allows a user to touch, fell, manipulate, create, and/or alter simulated three-dimensional objects in a virtual environment. Most of the existing applications of haptics are dedicated to hone human physical skills such as sensitive hardware repair, medical procedures, handling hazardous substances, etc. These skills can be trained in a realistic virtual world, and describe human behavioural patterns in human–computer interaction environments. The measurement of such psychomotor patterns can be used to verify a person’s identity by assessing unique-to-the-individual behavioural attributes. This paper explores the unique behaviour exhibited by different users interacting with haptic systems. Through several haptic-based applications, users’ physical attributes output data from the haptic interface for use in the construction of a biometric system.

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    Mauricio Orozco, Matthew Graydon, Shervin Shirmohammadi & Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

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An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11042-008-0196-1.

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Orozco, M., Graydon, M., Shirmohammadi, S. et al. Experiments in haptic-based authentication of humans. Multimed Tools Appl 37, 73–92 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-007-0169-9

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