Disney Research invents ‘touch interaction’ to control computers and objects
May 8, 2012
Touché applications: (a) on-body gesture sensing; (b) a smart doorknob with a “gesture password”; (c) interacting with water; (d) hand postures in touch screen interaction. (Credit: Disney Research)
Disney Research has developed Touché, a new “touch interaction” sensing technology for using gestures and touch to control computing devices and everyday objects.
Touché uses a novel Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing technique that can detect a touch event and simultaneously recognize complex configurations of the human hands and body during touch interaction.
Ref.: Sato, M., Poupyrev, I, and Harrison, C. Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Everyday Objects. In Proceedings of CHI’12. 2012. ACM.
Paper [PDF, 10Mb] (open access)
Comments (4)
by Spikosauropod
This is similar to biological hearing. It can probably be refined so that it senses the difference between very subtle types of contact. You could type on anything. Combined with other types of sensors with similar analytics, your every movement could communicate your actions and intentions. As you walked through a room, your behavior would communicate volumes of useful information.
Of course, it could also be used for spying. As many of us have surmised, privacy is a thing of the past.
by melajara
Excellent, no door code anymore, just the proper sequence of gestures. Applications are limitless.
by Matthew French
This is all well and good, but how are they using touch sensing on non conductive things, such as a couch?
by Spikosauropod
Wow!