Software recognizing keyboard user

A scientist from the New York University has created a system which is able to recognize the identity and the feelings of the person using the keyboard.

Leon Eckert has created software which uses analysis of the way we type to guess the person doing the typing. Not only that – the system is able to discover what the person's emotions are at the moment of typing.

The software can only be used by high tech giants, such as Facebook and Google, for now, as they have huge databases at their disposal.

Eckert has created a system recognizing the rhythm and the speed of typing. A user needs to type the same sentence three times, after which the software creates a profile containing the statistics about the manner of typing, such as the duration of a single keystroke or the gap between two consecutive keystrokes.

It is said that the software needs only two seconds to recognize which one of the registered users is using the keyboard.

The emotion-guessing accuracy is 85%, but, as scientists claim, that part of the software is to be further developed.

Leon Eckert

New York University

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