SAFE investigates whether a user's intent can be understood before authentication or a high-risk transaction is completed.

Research themes

• Intent mapping: analysing behaviour and interaction patterns to distinguish intended action from manipulation or coercion.
• Interaction signals: exploring mouse, keyboard and smartphone micromovements together with carefully designed user questions.
• Intent-aware authentication: combining identity verification with contextual signals so systems can respond when an action appears uncertain or externally influenced.
• Responsible decision support: evaluating explainability, privacy, fairness and the risk of false alarms.

Research goal

The goal is to give users and service providers an earlier opportunity to pause, verify or redesign a transaction when genuine intent is unclear.