Acceptance of Biometric Authentication Security Technology on Mobile Devices

Abstract

The development of mobile devices is quick and changes our daily personal and business lives. Every mobile user wants to be sure about individual data security, and for this reason, biometrics come into existence for mobile devices. Many studies were conducted on the acceptance of biometric authentication technology, but only a few of these studies focused on mobile devices-based biometry and the current study based on the mobile technology. To observe the reliability of the broadcast services, it is essential to offer better security for the biometry mobile phones. The limitations of this study were addressed by proposing a new mobile biometric technology acceptance model (MBTAM) that contains perceived humanness (PH), perceived interactivity (PI), and perceived social presence (PSP). The combined model for this quantitative study was tested on 302 mobile users through the distribution of the survey questionnaire, and examined by using the statistical package for social science (SPS). The results indicate that only one variable of the proposed model is not supported, which calls for further research. Furthermore, the functional elements of the research model become more prominent on the customer’s intention to practice the mobile biometric device than the social elements. The research contributes to academic by suggesting new constructs that join together MBTAM to evaluate the possibility of mobile users to accept biometric authentication technology.