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TACTONIC ™ SENSOR VIDEO: PRESSURE IMAGING EVERYWHERE Cost effective - High frame rate - Any size
Why Pressure for Touch? Multi-Touch Gestures Gloved Hand No Special Stylus Palm Elimination Writing / Signature
Press To Click? Which?
Isometric Gestures
Isometric vs Isotonic Gestures Static Friction Detection requires many pressure bits
Isometric Pinch and Twist
Hand Lean
Secure Signature
Notebooks and Peripherals Touch 2.0 Bi-Manual Bi-Modal
Touch on Back of Device
Tablets/Phones
AR + Any Surface What would you your environment be like if you could have arbitrarily large, seamless pressure imaging surfaces, with or without displays. [[[ SITE SOME CHI FOLK/RESERARCH ]]]
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Current Custom Controls EMI Wet Gloves Durable Rugged
Physical or AR Virtual Controls Works as an A/R Virtual Controller - or- Passive Overlay: Solid or translucent over feedback LEDs
Sensor Under Flexible OLED
Technical Requirements High Resolution High Frame Rate Low Power No Electromagnetic Interference Durable Wet Environment Friendly Not Limited to use with Bare Hands No Size Limitations Cost Effective
Deforming Haptics
Vibration Haptics Bending Waves
Chris Harrison and Scott Hudson - Carnegie Mellon University Sheer Force Detection Chris Harrison and Scott Hudson - Carnegie Mellon University
Robb Godshaw - Rochester Institute of Technology Temperature Robb Godshaw - Rochester Institute of Technology
Which Finger? Hand? User?
Sensor Fusion
TACTONIC ™ SENSOR VIDEO: PRESSURE IMAGING EVERYWHERE Cost effective - High frame rate - Any size
Interactive Whiteboard With projective and display technologies, the giant iPad is clearly the next technology iteration
TACTONIC ™ SENSOR VIDEO: PRESSURE IMAGING EVERYWHERE Cost effective - High frame rate - Any size
Game Controllers The WiiFit Wii Balance Board was able to utilize some subtleties of body and feet gestures, but for a single tethered person As with DDR , that kid wants to move. And Clearly mom dad and sis want to get in the action too. If that rug had pressure imaging, that could be done Clearly in conjunction with Kinect like technology capturing limb, leg and head positions along with balance
TACTONIC ™ SENSOR VIDEO: PRESSURE IMAGING EVERYWHERE Tactonic™ Tiles Kit Available September 2012
People Tracking
Tracking Applications Security Market Intelligence
Presence/Movement: Factory Safety
Tactonic™ Developer Kit Questions? For More Information Contact: Gerry Seidman gerry@tactonic.com http://www.tactonic.com Tactonic™ Developer Kit Available June 2012