Odour User Interface for Authentication: Possibility and Acceptance: Case Study

Abstract

Abstract---Historically, some new technologies are faced with rejection or acceptance. So researchers developed TAM (Technology Acceptance Model). TAM depends upon the user perception of the easiness and benefits. Authentication plays an important role in our lives as we use it every day. Odour, as a biometric technique, has some important characteristics, mainly, it is faster and easier since users will be not involved with unfamiliar interfaces such as typing password, signing or even deliberate exposing some part of the body. Odour field is still under development and needs a lot of work. In spite of the few limited researches that discuss the odour as user authentication technique their results predict that it would be good tool. This brings a question about the future of odour authentication systems and using it in real world. A questionnaire was distributed to measure the acceptance of using odour as authentication system and analyzed the collect data. It is concluded that it would be successfully used in authentication systems.