Continuous Biometric User Authentication in Online Examinations

Author

Flior, Eric ; Kowalski, Kazimierz

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., California State Univ., Carson, CA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

12-14 April 2010

Firstpage

488

Lastpage

492

Abstract

Online examinations pose a unique problem for distance-based education, in that it can be very difficult to provide true user authentication. Due to the inherent anonymity of being online, compared to taking an examination in a classroom environment, students may attempt to artificially boost their scores in online examinations by having another individual take the exam for them, which a typical user/password authentication scheme cannot detect. This paper discusses and presents a method for providing continuous biometric user authentication in online examinations via keystroke dynamics.

Keywords

authorisation; biometrics (access control); computer aided instruction; distance learning; classroom environment; continuous biometric user authentication; distance-based education; inherent anonymity; keystroke dynamics; online examinations; user-password authentication scheme; Authentication; Biometrics; Computer science; Computer science education; Continuing education; Fingerprint recognition; Information technology; Rhythm; Security; Testing; correlation; cosine; dynamics; keystroke; multi-factored; signature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), 2010 Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6270-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITNG.2010.250

Filename

5501729