The impact of instructional training methods on the biometric data collection agent

Benny Senjaya, Purdue University

Abstract

This research investigates the effectiveness of two different instructional training methods for data collection agents use in an attended system which was measured by the biometric transaction time. Biometric data collection agent would be someone that uses biometric devices to capture someone else's biometric trait(s). Military personnel or an immigration border officer could be categorized as a biometric data collection agent. These agents need to be educated to understand how to operate the device properly for security purposes. People understand the importance of training but there is a limited amount of research on this topic in the biometric field. There is also no clear methodology in the biometric literature on how to approach this issue. This study investigated the effect of biometric data collections agent's training specifically in an attended biometric environment. There were three areas that were analyzed for the study: (a) the effect of training methods on biometric transaction time, (b) the effect of learning styles of the agent on the training and biometric transaction times, and (c) some human biometric sensor interaction (HBSI) issues that arise from the training methods that were given to the agent.

Degree

M.S.

Advisors

Elliott, Purdue University.

Subject Area

Information Technology|Experimental psychology

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