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Reconstructing what you said: Text Inference using Smartphone Motion

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dc.creator Hodges, Duncan
dc.creator Buckley, Oliver
dc.date 2018-10-19T13:16:50Z
dc.date 2018-10-19T13:16:50Z
dc.date 2018-06-02
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-25T16:39:06Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-25T16:39:06Z
dc.identifier Duncan Hodges and Oliver Buckley. Reconstructing what you said: text Inference using Smartphone Motion. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume 18, Issue 4, April 1 2019, pp. 947-959
dc.identifier 1536-1233
dc.identifier http://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2018.2850313
dc.identifier http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13551
dc.identifier 20963077
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182407
dc.description Smartphones and tablets are becoming ubiquitous within our connected lives and as a result these devices are increasingly being used for more and more sensitive applications, such as banking. The security of the information within these sensitive applications is managed through a variety of different processes, all of which minimise the exposure of this sensitive information to other potentially malicious applications on the device. This paper documents experiments with motion sensors on the device as a side-channel for inferring the text typed into a sensitive application. These sensors are freely accessible without the phone user having to give permission. The research was able to, on average, identify nearly 30% of typed bigrams from unseen words, using a very small volume of training data, less than the size of a tweet. Given the redundancy in language this performance is often enough to understand the phrase being typed. We found that large devices were more vulnerable than small devices, as were users who held the device in one hand whilst typing with fingers. Of those bigrams which were incorrectly identified 60% of the errors involved the space bar and nearly half of the errors are within two keys on the keyboard.
dc.language en
dc.publisher IEEE
dc.rights Attribution 3.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.subject Sensors
dc.subject Keyboards
dc.subject Performance evaluation
dc.subject Mobile computing
dc.subject Smart phones
dc.subject Presses
dc.subject Accelerometers
dc.title Reconstructing what you said: Text Inference using Smartphone Motion
dc.type Article


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