Fiberio: a touchscreen that senses fingerprints

  • Authors:
  • Christian Holz;Patrick Baudisch

  • Affiliations:
  • Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany;Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We present Fiberio, a rear-projected multitouch table that identifies users biometrically based on their fingerprints during each touch interaction. Fiberio accomplishes this using a new type of screen material: a large fiber optic plate. The plate diffuses light on transmission, thereby allowing it to act as projection surface. At the same time, the plate reflects light specularly, which produces the contrast required for fingerprint sensing. In addition to offering all the functionality known from traditional diffused illumination systems, Fiberio is the first interactive tabletop system that authenticates users during touch interaction-unobtrusively and securely using the biometric features of fingerprints, which eliminates the need for users to carry any identification tokens.