Usability Testing of Ten-Print Fingerprint Capture

Published

March 13, 2007

Author(s)

Mary Theofanos, Brian Stanton, Shahram Orandi, Ross J. Micheals, Nien F. Zhang

Abstract

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program are migrating from a two print capture process (left and right index fingers) to a ten-print slap fingerprint capture process (all fingers on both hands). The NIST Biometrics Usability group performed a usability test to evaluate the time required to acquire a 10 print slap fingerprint image. Users accustomed with leaving two index fingerprints at US-VISIT may not be familiar with the ten slap fingerprint capture process. Thus, in addition to measuring the time necessary to acquire the 10 print slap, the study also evaluated various methods of providing instructional information to the users. This report presents the results of a study that examined the 10-print collection process. The study was designed to answer three questions: 1.How long does it take to capture a 10-print image? 2.What is the impact of instructional mode (poster, verbal or video) on user performance? 3.What are the frequency and nature of the errors that occur in this process?

Citation

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 7403

Report Number

7403

NIST Pub Series

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Pub Type

NIST Pubs

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Keywords

biometrics, usability, instructional mode

Citation

Theofanos, M. , Stanton, B. , Orandi, S. , Micheals, R. and Zhang, N. (2007), Usability Testing of Ten-Print Fingerprint Capture, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=51123 (Accessed April 24, 2024)