Shake Well Before Use: Authentication Based on Accelerometer Data

Mayrhofer, René; Gellersen, Hans

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-72037-9_9

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“…Many researchers have focused on providing device connections using collocated human movements or continuous actions. These interfaces include pressing buttons simultaneously on both devices [8] , pressing buttons sequentially [9] , bumping devices together [10][11][12] , shaking devices together [13][14] , and stroking the device [15] . The spatial proximity of the two devices is sensed via infrared or radio frequency identification (RFID) technology [8] .…”

Section: Related Work On Device Connectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Wireless device connection problems and design solutions

Song

Norman

Nam

et al. 2016

Chin. J. Mech. Eng.

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Users, especially the non-expert users, commonly experience problems when connecting multiple devices with interoperability. While studies on multiple device connections are mostly concentrated on spontaneous device association techniques with a focus on security aspects, the research on user interaction for device connection is still limited. More research into understanding people is needed for designers to devise usable techniques. This research applies the Research-through-Design method and studies the non-expert users' interactions in establishing wireless connections between devices. The "Learning from Examples" concept is adopted to develop a study focus line by learning from the expert users' interaction with devices. This focus line is then used for guiding researchers to explore the non-expert users' difficulties at each stage of the focus line. Finally, the Research-through-Design approach is used to understand the users' difficulties, gain insights to design problems and suggest usable solutions. When connecting a device, the user is required to manage not only the device's functionality but also the interaction between devices. Based on learning from failures, an important insight is found that the existing design approach to improve single-device interaction issues, such as improvements to graphical user interfaces or computer guidance, cannot help users to handle problems between multiple devices. This study finally proposes a desirable user-device interaction in which images of two devices function together with a system image to provide the user with feedback on the status of the connection, which allows them to infer any required actions.

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Section: Related Work On Device Connectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Firstly, much existing work has assumed that associated devices have primitive connections to other devices or services [8][9][14][15] . It follows that help is not available to the user when they have a problem with the primitive connection.…”

Section: Related Work On Device Connectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wireless device connection problems and design solutions

Song

Norman

Nam

et al. 2016

Chin. J. Mech. Eng.

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“…Up to recently, few reports in this area exist. Mayrhover et al [14] proposed a system whereby two mobile devices are held and shaken together to create a shared secret key. In this case, both devices must have embedded accelerometers, and the acceleration data are converted into the same key.…”

Section: Out-of-band Channelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gesture Input as an Out-of-band Channel

Chagnaadorj¹,

Tanaka²

2014

Journal of Information Processing Systems

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Abstract-In recent years, there has been growing interest in secure pairing, which refers to the establishment of a secure communication channel between two mobile devices. There are a number of descriptions of the various types of out-of-band (OOB) channels, through which authentication data can be transferred under a user's control and involvement. However, none have become widely used due to their lack of adaptability to the variety of mobile devices. In this paper, we introduce a new OOB channel, which uses accelerometer-based gesture input. The gesture-based OOB channel is suitable for all kinds of mobile devices, including input/output constraint devices, as the accelerometer is small and incurs only a small computational overhead. We implemented and evaluated the channel using an Apple iPhone handset. The results demonstrate that the channel is viable with completion times and error rates that are comparable with other OOB channels.

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“…Imposing movement on associating devices by shaking them together or simultaneous button presses in order to create shared secret data was discussed in [8] and [15].…”

Section: Examples Of Manual Authentication Protocolsmentioning

confidence: 99%