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The front camera has very little chance to register any finger motion on screen, though.

Adding accelerometer (tilt / shift) data could help a little bit, because it's correlated to the motion of typing hands, too.



It helps quite a bit. The relevant web APIs were retroactively rate-limitied to mitigate these risks.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=421691

https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.7746


There were 3 research papers that came out around 2012 (almost simultaneously) that looked at using accelerometers to infer what people were typing.

Here is one of them, I don't recall the other two. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2162095


It could look at your eyes to infer wich key you are pressing




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