PrintSense

Project Details
Project Name :

PrintSense

Project Category :

01Digital Fabrication Technologies

Client Review :

(CHI 2014)

Description :

PrintSense

A Versatile Sensing Technique to Support Multimodal Flexible Surface Interaction


We present a multimodal on-surface and near-surface sensing technique for planar, curved and flexible surfaces. Our technique leverages temporal multiplexing of signals coming from a universal inter-digitated electrode design, which is printed as a single conductive layer on a flexible substrate. It supports sensing of touch and proximity in- put, and moreover is capable of capturing several levels of pressure and flexing. We leverage recent developments in conductive inkjet printing as a way to prototype electrode patterns, and combine this with a new hardware module for supporting the full range of sensing methods. As the technique is low-cost and easy to implement, it is particularly well-suited for prototyping touch- and hover-based user interfaces, including curved and deformable ones.

Publication

Nan-Wei Gong, Jürgen Steimle, Simon Olberding, Steve Hodges, Nicholas Gillian, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Joseph Paradiso
In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’14).ACM Press. 2014.


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