Measuring and Inferring the State of the User via the Microsoft Kinect with Application to Cyber Security Research

Abstract

Within the domain of cyber security research, there exists a need to better understand the methods and processes by which cyber security analysts perform various tasks and develop new analysis techniques and tools for these tasks where appropriate. This report provides a review of relevant literature for measuring and inferring the state of the user via the Microsoft Kinect within the broad domains of usability and/or psychology. Of the various studies and applications sampled, the use of the Kinect to measure the attention of a user sitting at a computer workstation emerged as particularly relevant given that cyber security network analysts perform computing tasks that require sustained attention over a period of time. Custom software for collecting metrics that may be useful for measuring attention using the Kinect has also been developed and is documented here.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 16, 2018
Accession Number
AD1047103

Entities

People

  • Christopher J. Garneau

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Literature Surveys
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Recognition
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Database Systems and Applications

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • Cyber