Researchers have created an app that follows the micro-movements of your smartwatch and is able to detect what keys you're pressing with your left hand and thus guess what words you may be typing on a keyboard.
Romit Roy Choudhury, Associate Professor at ECE Illinois, together with a group of students, worked on a project called
Motion Leaks (MoLe), funded by the National Science Foundation, set to be presented during this week at the MobiCon 2015 conference in Paris.
Their research consisted of a homegrown app which they installed on a
Samsung Gear Live smartwatch.
Researchers use the smartwatch's sensors to detect keyboard strokes
Using the watch's
built-in motion sensors, more specifically data from the accelerometer and gyroscope, researchers were able to create a 3D map of the user's hand movements while typing on a keyboard.
