SENG 513 Assignment 2 - New Ways to Unlock your phone
Introducing 2 new ways to unlock your phones.
Group Members:
So, what are these new methods?
Piano to enter your password
This method uses your phone's touchscreen in order to play a piano. Play the proper melody (your password) and watch the phone open!
An upgrade to facial detection
This is our take on expanding facial detection. Now, instead of just showing your face the mobile will prompt you to conduct a series of actions that will ensure improved security.
Initial Sketches
Touch Based Implementation
The sketches below are a hand drawn first-draft ideas by me for what I thought our touch based unlocking system should look like
Most of my initial ideas revolved around gamification of the unlocking process
One idea included making the chance to unlock luck based
Another gamification idea was to make it into a game like soccer or basketball where you unlock if you flick and score
Other ideas focussed more on making the security safer but in this sketch we see that while looking complicated, there is zero security.
The ideas eventually evolved into trying to enter a password using fun methods
A lot of the ideas focussed on protecting the phone from a robot or bot by making them complete tasks
There would be checks to ensure that the task was actually completed
The tasks would get increasingly complicated (for a machine to understand anyway)
Assuming that all tasks were completed successfully, the phone would unlock
However, if the task kept failing or getting delayed the phone would lock like it would normally.
Sensor Based Implementation
The sketches below are a hand drawn first-draft ideas by me for what I thought our sensor based unlocking system should look like
Most of my initial ideas revolved around using a sound based input
The phone would ask you security questions that you would answer verbally
It could also ask you questions similar to what ReCaptchas do
Another idea would involve setting a certain melody as a password
The volume of the input could also be a factor
You could also set security questions similar to a bank
One idea was combining gamification with sound based inputs
The game would be played using your voice as an input
If you failed the phone wouldn't unlock
One last idea was to engage in a conversation with AI and it would let you unlock the phone only if you are nice to it.
Final Sketches
Touch Based Implementation
Our final ideas combined ideas from both sets of initial sketches.
All our group members had similar ideas to combine music and security.
In the end we settled for a piano based system that matches your password to the music you play.
Sensor Based Implementation
Similar to the piano, the sensor based implementation borrows ideas from all sketches.
In the end we are left with a system that enhances current facial recognition software.
Here, we assume that this system starts working only after the phone has recognized the user
So in order to avoid just your photo or video being used to unlock your phone, you now need to complete a bunch of tasks before the phone gives you access.
These additional tasks improve your security as your actual face will be needed to complete these tasks.
Presenting our Demos
Our Demo
The demo below showcases our implemention it's infancy.
Please note:
- This demo is merely to showcase the concept and is not a representation of the final app.
- For the facial recognition we assume that it runs only after it recognizes your face.