Novel Solution for Addressing Identity Theft and Cheating in Electronic Examinations using Mouse Dynamics

Abstract

Conducting examinations electronically has gained a lot of acceptance in the educational sector especially in Nigeria tertiary institutions; the complexity of electronic examinations has made it very difficult to verify the identity of students compared to writing exams in the traditional environment. In order to get good scores, an impostor may be used to write the exam for the student. This paper proposes the application of a continuous behavior-metric user authentication in electronics examination via mouse movement dynamics that will verify the identity of a student writing an electronic examination by comparing his mouse movement against the one in his profile. The proposed system will also be able to detect the identity of the imposter.