Implementing Ergonomic Principles in a Biometric System: A Look at the Human Biometric Sensor Interaction (HBSI)

This paper discusses the implementation of ergonomic principles in a biometric system. Historically, the biometrics community has performed limited work in the area of ergonomics and usability. This research discusses an experiment involving a swipe fingerprint sensor which examined the human interaction with the biometric device called the human biometric sensor interaction (HBSI). The purpose of this study was to examine issues related to fingerprint acquisition of all ten digits. The results revealed that there are fingerprints that have higher failure to acquire (FTA) rates than others, indicating others factors apart from image quality, such as how the user interacts with the device may be at play. Thus, more research is needed in the area of biometric usability and ergonomics, namely understanding how the human interacts with the biometric sensor