As wearable devices become increasingly miniaturized and powerful, a new opportunity arises for instant and dynamic device-to-device collaboration and human-to-device interaction. However, this progress presents a unique challenge: these minimalist wearables lack inherent mechanisms for real-time authentication, posing significant risks to data privacy and overall security. To address this, we introduce Proteus that realizes an innovative concept of time-bound contextual bio-IDs, which are generated from on-device sensor data and embedded into a common latent space. These bio-IDs act as a time-bound unique user identifier that can be used to identify the wearer in a certain context. Proteus enables dynamic and contextual device collaboration as well as robust human-to-device interaction. Our evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, particularly in the context of minimalist wearables.
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@article{arxiv.2403.00889,
title = {Time-bound Contextual Bio-ID Generation for Minimalist Wearables},
author = {Adiba Orzikulova and Diana A. Vasile and Fahim Kawsar and Chulhong Min},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.00889},
year = {2024}
}