Researchers have created an application for SmartWatch that can detect what you have typed from the movements of your left hand.
Yes something like keylogger that is. The app follows the micro-movements of your SmartWatch and is able to detect the keys you press with your left hand and thus guess the words you type on the keyboard.
Mr. Romit Roy Choudhury, Associate Professor at the Illinois ECE, along with a group of students who worked on the project called Motion Leaks or MoLe from the initials ("Motion Leaks"), will present their results this week at the conference MobiCon 2015 to be held in Paris.
Their research was funded by the National Science Foundation.
The application they developed will be installed on SmartWatch on Samsung Gear Live.
Using the built-in motion sensors, and in particular the SmartWatch accelerometer and gyroscope, the researchers were able to create a 3D map with the user's hand movements when typing on a keyboard.
The researchers then created two algorithms, one to locate the pressed keys, and one to guess which word was typed.
The research team reports that their implementation still has a long way to go, as there are some shortcomings. Mole currently cannot detect special characters (numbers, punctuation and symbols), the key of space still creates some problems.
The app developed for Project Mole only works on Samsung Gear devices, but the researchers say that, in theory, a similar app could be developed for all models Smart Watch.
