Custom Touch Pads for the Body Allow Users to Control Devices
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Custom Touch Pads for the Body Allow Users to Control Devices
They are similar to ultra-thin patches, their shape can be freely chosen, and they work anywhere on the body. With such sensors on the skin, mobile devices like smartphones and smartwatches can be operated more intuitively and discreetly than ever before.
Computer scientists at Saarland University have now developed sensors that even laypeople can produce with a little effort. The special feature: the sensors make it possible, for the first time, to capture touches on the body very precisesly, even from multiple fingers. The researchers have successfully tested their prototypes in four different applications.
“The human body offers a large surface that is easy to access, even without eye contact,” Jürgen Steimle, a professor of computer science at Saarland University, explains the researchers’ interest in this literal human-computer interface. Yet the scientists’ vision had so far not succeeded, because the necessary sensors could not measure touches precisely enough, nor could they capture them from multiple fingertips simultaneously. Jürgen Steimle and his research group have now developed the appropriate special type of sensor.
More https://goo.gl/imTZNq
https://goo.gl/imTZNq
Custom Touch Pads for the Body Allow Users to Control Devices
They are similar to ultra-thin patches, their shape can be freely chosen, and they work anywhere on the body. With such sensors on the skin, mobile devices like smartphones and smartwatches can be operated more intuitively and discreetly than ever before.
Computer scientists at Saarland University have now developed sensors that even laypeople can produce with a little effort. The special feature: the sensors make it possible, for the first time, to capture touches on the body very precisesly, even from multiple fingers. The researchers have successfully tested their prototypes in four different applications.
“The human body offers a large surface that is easy to access, even without eye contact,” Jürgen Steimle, a professor of computer science at Saarland University, explains the researchers’ interest in this literal human-computer interface. Yet the scientists’ vision had so far not succeeded, because the necessary sensors could not measure touches precisely enough, nor could they capture them from multiple fingertips simultaneously. Jürgen Steimle and his research group have now developed the appropriate special type of sensor.
More https://goo.gl/imTZNq
https://goo.gl/imTZNq
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