A researcher has proposed a new authentication concept that would use cerebral activation patterns created by emotional stimulation.Conceived by Violeta Tulceanu from the Faculty of Computer Science, at the University of Iasi, Romania, the concept would see information gathered about the users' mental and emotional state.Authorisation is granted if the user's state of mind allows him to responsibly use the resources he is entitled to, proposes the paper, published in the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms.The data collected is further used to make predictions about the future behaviour of the user, by analysing the slow variations of the data over time.The author says that this type of authentication has applications in fields such as the military, e-learning, health, where it is necessary to be able to establish whether the user was acting responsibly and of his own accord.Such situations include accessing data or weapons systems, or potentially patient records.Presumably there could also be commercial applications in finance such as in trading decisions or large money transfers.Last October, A Texas Tech University researcher revealed research to develop secure user authentication methods, by looking at using brain waves as individual identifiers.The National Science Foundation (NSF) is currently funding a three-year project in which Syracuse University and the University of Alabama-Birmingham are exploring how several behavioral modalities, including EEG brain patterns, could be leveraged to augment traditional user authentication mechanisms.
'I feel, therefore I am’: Brainwave authentication using emotion patterns
