Acuity is in the process of drumming up participants for an academic research project titled, “Biometrics - Performance, Security, and Social Impact”. They are conducting an end-user survey as part of the project, “Analysis of the Social Perceptions of Biometric Technology”. Now logically, most readers of Secure ID News would be interested in the final outcome of the project. But some of you may already be using the technology, and would like to participate in the survey. If that’s the case, you may want to bring this project to the attention of your vendor or provider of your biometrics.

You can help encourage the growth of the technology in the right direction. Research projects like these bring issues and dilemmas to the forefront, making it obvious to manufacturers what needs to be addressed for improvement. Additionally, when they reinforce the messages preached by the vendors and sales people, it makes for a much more valuable testimony from an outside party with no bias other than to educate.

Here’s the website with all the information.

Or - if you’re just interested in the project itself for viewing when it is released, here’s a timetable. (It won’t be available until sometime in 2005.)