System of personal identification by using tactile stimuli

Abstract

This paper proposes a personal authentication system that uses tactile stimuli. Recently, scientists have been conducting research in biometrics using biomedical information. However, there is the problem that biomedical information is unchangeable. For example, if a thief steals another user's biomedical information, that person has no information to register. Due to the problems of sight information and unchangeable biomedical information, we propose a solution that uses the sense of tactile stimuli. Tactile information is difficult to steal and relies on human memory, which is unchangeable. This paper proposes a system that uses a pattern formed by a tactile stimuli time series instead of a password number as the identification key. We also discuss the results of an identification experiment and a memory property experiment. ©ISAROB 2008.