Capacitive Fingerprinting

Capacitive Fingerprinting is a new sensing approach to differentiate between multiple users engaging with touch screens and other interactive surfaces. Although currently touchscreens can differentiate multiple points of contact, they are not able to differentiate who is touching the device. In Capacitive Fingerprinting we consider how the electrical properties of human bodies and their attire can be used to support user differentiation on touchscreens.

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Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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