Detecting LLM-Assisted Academic Dishonesty using Keystroke Dynamics

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Autori principali: Mehta, Atharva, Kumar, Rajesh, Singla, Aman, Bisht, Kartik, Singla, Yaman Kumar, Shah, Rajiv Ratn
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author Mehta, Atharva
Kumar, Rajesh
Singla, Aman
Bisht, Kartik
Singla, Yaman Kumar
Shah, Rajiv Ratn
author_facet Mehta, Atharva
Kumar, Rajesh
Singla, Aman
Bisht, Kartik
Singla, Yaman Kumar
Shah, Rajiv Ratn
contents The rapid adoption of generative AI tools has heightened concerns regarding academic integrity, as students increasingly engage in dishonest practices by copying or paraphrasing AI-generated content. Existing plagiarism detection systems, which rely primarily on text-intrinsic features, are ineffective at identifying AI-assisted or paraphrased submissions. Our prior conference work introduced a behavioral detection approach that leverages how text is produced, captured through keystroke dynamics, in addition to what is written, enabling discrimination between genuine and assisted writing. That study, conducted on keystroke data from 40 participants, demonstrated promising performance. This paper substantially extends and systemizes the prior work by: (1) expanding the dataset with 90 additional participants and introducing an explicit paraphrasing condition to model realistic plagiarism strategies; (2) formalizing a threat model and evaluating detection under adversarial and deception-oriented scenarios; and (3) performing a comprehensive empirical comparison against state-of-the-art text-only detectors and human evaluators. Experimental results demonstrate that keystroke-based models significantly outperform text-based approaches in practical deployment settings, while revealing limitations under more challenging adversarial conditions.
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spellingShingle Detecting LLM-Assisted Academic Dishonesty using Keystroke Dynamics
Mehta, Atharva
Kumar, Rajesh
Singla, Aman
Bisht, Kartik
Singla, Yaman Kumar
Shah, Rajiv Ratn
Human-Computer Interaction
K.3.1
The rapid adoption of generative AI tools has heightened concerns regarding academic integrity, as students increasingly engage in dishonest practices by copying or paraphrasing AI-generated content. Existing plagiarism detection systems, which rely primarily on text-intrinsic features, are ineffective at identifying AI-assisted or paraphrased submissions. Our prior conference work introduced a behavioral detection approach that leverages how text is produced, captured through keystroke dynamics, in addition to what is written, enabling discrimination between genuine and assisted writing. That study, conducted on keystroke data from 40 participants, demonstrated promising performance. This paper substantially extends and systemizes the prior work by: (1) expanding the dataset with 90 additional participants and introducing an explicit paraphrasing condition to model realistic plagiarism strategies; (2) formalizing a threat model and evaluating detection under adversarial and deception-oriented scenarios; and (3) performing a comprehensive empirical comparison against state-of-the-art text-only detectors and human evaluators. Experimental results demonstrate that keystroke-based models significantly outperform text-based approaches in practical deployment settings, while revealing limitations under more challenging adversarial conditions.
title Detecting LLM-Assisted Academic Dishonesty using Keystroke Dynamics
topic Human-Computer Interaction
K.3.1
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12468