Demo: user identification and authentication with capacitive touch communication

  • Authors:

  • Tam Vu;Ashwin Ashok;Akash Baid;Marco Gruteser;Richard Howard;Janne Lindqvist;Predrag Spasojevic;Jeffrey Walling

  • Affiliations:

  • Rutgers University, North Brunswick, NJ, USA;WINLAB, North Brunswick, NJ, USA;Rutgers University, North Brunswick, NJ, USA;Rutgers University, North Brunswick, NJ, USA;Rutgers University, North Brunswick, NJ, USA;Rutgers University, North Brunswick, NJ, USA;Rutgers University, North Brunswick, NJ, USA;Rutgers University, North Brunswick, NJ, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Today's identification and authentication mechanisms for touchscreen-enabled devices are cumbersome and do not support brief usage and device sharing. To address this challenge, this work explores a novel form of "wireless" communication that exploits the capacitive touchscreens which are now used in laptops, phones, and tablets, as a signal receiver. Using a custom built hardware token, in the form of a wearable ring, we show a proof-of-concept system that transmits a user identification code to the mobile device through the touchscreen. This mechanism works without any modification to the hardware or the firmware of the mobile device.