Effects of Scanner Height on Fingerprint Capture

Although the deployment of biometric technologies such as fingerprints is becoming more widespread, little attention is being paid to the human-computer interaction that such technologies involve. Most biometric systems employ both hardware and software measures to maximize the capture quality of the biometric data. The physical presentation of the biometric data by the participant to the system involves many anthropometric and ergonomic factors that have been largely ignored. This study examined the effect of the height of the sensor on the quality and the time required to collect fingerprints. User performance, both fingerprint quality and timing, was impacted by scanner height.