Does Context Matter for the Performance of Continuous Authentication Biometric Systems? An Empirical Study on Mobile Device

In this paper we will show that context has an influence on the performance of a continuous authentication system. When context is considered we notice that the performance of the system improves by a factor of approximately 3. Even when testing and training are not based on exactly the same task, but on a similar task, we see an improvement of the performance over a system where the context is not included. In fact, we proof that the performance of the system depends on which particular kind of task is used for the training.