2010 Volume 46 Issue 11 Pages 676-684
We have investigated several characteristics of keystroke dynamics in Japanese free text typing. We performed experiments on 189 subjects, representing three groups according to the number of letters they could type in five minutes. In this experiment, we extracted the feature indices from the keystroke timing for each alphabet single letter and for two-letter combinations composed of consonant and vowel pairs in Japanese text. Taking into account two identification methods using weighted Euclidean distance (WED) and Vector Disorder (VD), we proposed their hybrid model for individual identification based on keystroke data in Japanese free text typing. By evaluating the personal identification for the three groups, its high performance was confirmed in proportion to the typing level of the group.