AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Work
GOALS
Balance Human & Artificial Intelligence
KEYWORDS
personal safety, IT security
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
Jun Chen, Guang Zhu, Jin Yang, Qingshen Jing, Peng Bai, Weiqing Yang, Xuewei Qi, Yuanjie Su, and Zhong Lin Wang.
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0245, United States
WEBSITE
http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/nn506832w
Personalized Keystroke Dynamics for Self-Powered Human–Machine Interfacing
The keyboard that learns from your behavior and secures your computer from intruders.
The computer keyboard is one of the most common, reliable, accessible, and effective tools used for human–machine interfacing and information exchange. Although keyboards have been used for hundreds of years for advancing human civilization, studying human behavior by keystroke dynamics using smart keyboards remains a great challenge. It holds features like for its use as a smart security system that can realize detection, alert, recording, and identification. The intelligent keyboard (IKB) can not only sensitively trigger a wireless alarm system once gentle finger tapping occurs but also trace and record typed content by detecting both the dynamic time intervals between and during the inputting of letters and the force used for each typing action. Such features hold promise for its use as a smart security system that can realize detection, alert, recording, and identification. The IKB is able to identify personal characteristics from different individuals, assisted by the behavioral.