SwipeIn

Problem:

Password authentication is a hassle and insecure. Creating a strong, unique password is difficult and so is remembering passwords. As a result, most people usually end up using the same password for all their accounts and saving or writing down their passwords. As such, passwords can be often be easily guessed or hacked (for example if you make an account on a shady site with your usual password), and mounting security challenges force websites to keep stepping up their password requirements - forcing ever more complex passwords with more and more symbols, numbers, and uppercase characters.

Another seemingly unrelated problem is in-flight entertainment systems - unresponsive, dirty and lacking any personalization. Our team decided to tackle this issue as well, and in general issues with conventional touch control.

Solution

We decided to use a more organic interface to simplify the login process. We used a Leap Motion controller, to develop SwipeIn, a novel control and authorization platform that allows you to simply swipe into your website or app. SwipeIn is especially useful in public places, like at ATMs, airports, or during flight - without the risk of tapping your password in plain view of potential attackers. By recognizing your hand shape and gestures, SwipeIn authorization is much easier to remember, more difficult to copy, and more secure.

Benefits

General:

Naturally conducive to muscle memory
Easy to remember, difficult to copy, and less common
Stay ahead of the game by being unique
Huge selection of possible gestures and positions greatly increases the amount of available patterns, allowing a secure pattern to be shorter and easier to remember than an equivalent password
Unique in that you can step up security without greatly inconveniencing users
Unlike facial identification, our system doesn't gather any personal information, and you can change your swipe pattern.

For airlines:

Allows passengers to personalize their entertainment
A more comfortable and natural control system
An airline can see what passengers enjoy, and focus on having those movies/shows/games, while not wasting money on things that nobody watches
Easier maintenance of on-screen entertainment systems, due to lower chances of a user touching the touch screen
Elimination of unintuitive and often times unresponsive and expensive remotes, therefore reducing the cost of seat installation
Customers save their profile with a specific airline, will want to come back to that airline to have their personalized selection

Therefore, we are:

Providing secure, password-less authorization
Elevating the customer experience
Improving the airline's brand image
And assisting in improving cost efficiency.

Future Steps

Combine with voice authentication for two-factor sign in.
Gather more details on the user's hand to add more possible swipe combinations
Utilize more complex error analysis or neural nets to identify hand geometry better