Biosensor-Instrumented xR Headsets: A Double-Edged Sword for User Identity and Privacy Management in the Metaverse
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Augmented and virtual reality headsets instrumented with physiological sensors are emerging in the market to allow for real-time user experience monitoring and optimization. The collected biosignals, such as electroencephalography (EEG) or photoplethysmography, may convey a lot of information about the user, such as their identity, age, gender, race, or even psychological/health state. While on one hand access to such information may raise serious privacy concerns, on the other, it opens up a new avenue of authentication and access control for the metaverse. In this work, we show some preliminary results on user identity detection based on EEG signals captured while the user was performing arm movement gestures akin to those done while interacting with virtual content in extended reality. User detection accuracy substantially larger than chance was observed, suggesting its potential use for access control and authentication. We conclude with some suggestions for future research on physiological signal anonymization as a means to reduce concerns around user privacy in the metaverse.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it