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At the present time, since mobile devices such as tablet-type PCs and smart phones have widely penetrated into our daily lives, an authentication method that prevents shoulder surfing attacks comes to be important. We are investigating a new user authentication method for mobile devices that uses surface electromyogram (s-EMG) signals, not screen touching. The s-EMG signals, which are generated by the electrical activity of muscle fibers during contraction, can be detected over the skin surface, and muscle movement can be differentiated by analyzing the s-EMG signals. Taking advantage of the characteristics, we proposed a method that uses a list of gestures as a password in the previous study. In order to realize this method, we have to prepare a sufficient number of gestures that are used to compose passwords. In this paper, we adopted fingerspelling as candidates of such gestures. We measured s-EMG signals of manual kana of The Japanese Sign Language syllabary and evaluated their potential as the important element of the user authentication method.
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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP17H01736, JP17K00139, JP17K00186, JP18K11268.
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Yamaba, H. et al. (2020). Evaluation of Manual Alphabets Based Gestures for a User Authentication Method Using s-EMG. In: Barolli, L., Nishino, H., Enokido, T., Takizawa, M. (eds) Advances in Networked-based Information Systems. NBiS - 2019 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1036. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29029-0_56
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