PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a personal identification method capable of identifying a person based on eye movement.SOLUTION: A personal identification method is executed by a personal identification device and includes: an eye movement acquisition step for acquiring information on eye movement of an identification object; a feature quantity extraction step for extracting a representative feature quantity including one or more feature quantities based on the eye movement; and a personal identification step for identifying the identification object based on the representative feature quantity. The feature quantity based on the eye movement includes, for example, a feature quantity related to micro saccades.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2COPYRIGHT: (C)2016,JPO&INPIT【課題】眼球運動に基づいて個人を識別することができる個人識別方法を提供する。【解決手段】個人識別装置が実行する個人識別方法であって、識別対象者の眼球の動きに関する情報を取得する眼球運動取得ステップと、眼球の動きに基づく特徴量を一つ以上含む代表特徴量を抽出する特徴量抽出ステップと、代表特徴量に基づいて識別対象者を識別する個人識別ステップを含む。眼球の動きに基づく特徴量として、例えばマイクロサッカードに関する特徴量を含む。【選択図】図2