iSkin

Project Details
Project Name :

iSkin

Project Category :

02Body Interaction, Featured Project, Steimle

Skill :

Best Paper Award

Client Review :

(CHI 2015)

Description :

iSkin

Flexible, Stretchable and Visually Customizable On-Body Touch Sensors for Mobile Computing


We propose iSkin, a novel class of skin-worn sensors for touch input on the body. iSkin is a very thin sensor overlay, made of biocompatible materials, and is flexible and stretchable. It can be produced in different shapes and sizes to suit various locations of the body such as the finger, forearm, or ear. Integrating capacitive and resistive touch sensing, the sensor is capable of detecting touch input with two levels of pressure, even when stretched by 30% or when bent with a radius of 0.5 cm. Furthermore, iSkin supports single or multiple touch areas of custom shape and arrangement, as well as more complex widgets, such as sliders and click wheels. Recognizing the social importance of skin, we show visual design patterns to customize functional touch sensors and allow for a visually aesthetic appearance. Taken together, these contributions enable new types of on-body devices. This includes finger-worn devices, extensions to conventional wearable devices, and touch input stickers, all fostering direct, quick, and discreet input for mobile computing.

The publication received a Best Paper Award at ACM CHI’15 (top 1% of submissions).

Publication

Martin Weigel, Tong Lu, Gilles Bailly, Antti Oulasvirta, Carmel Majidi, and Jürgen Steimle
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’15)


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