Tangential force sensing system on forearm

Makino, Yasutoshi; Sugiura, Yuta; Ogata, Masao; İnami, Masahiko

doi:10.1145/2459236.2459242

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“…The latest efforts by Makino et al (2013) go beyond just touching and tapping actions by using a new technique with photo reflective sensors, enabling pinching, pulling, twisting and caressing. Dezfuli et al (2012) present a palm-based imaginary interface to control the TV.…”

Section: Body Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing Multimodal Mobile Interaction for a Text Messaging Application for Visually Impaired Users

et al. 2017

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While mobile devices have experienced important accessibility advances in the past years, people with visual impairments still face important barriers, especially in specific contexts when both their hands are not free to hold the mobile device, like when walking outside. By resorting to a multimodal combination of body based gestures and voice, we aim to achieve full hands and vision free interaction with mobile devices. In this article, we describe this vision and present the design of a prototype, inspired by that vision, of a text messaging application. The article also presents a user study where the suitability of the proposed approach was assessed, and a performance comparison between our prototype and existing SMS applications was conducted. Study participants received positively the prototype, which also supported better performance in tasks that involved text editing.

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Section: Body Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing Multimodal Mobile Interaction for a Text Messaging Application for Visually Impaired Users

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“…Skinput [7] provides a method for turning the human body into an input interface using a bioacoustics microphone to sense the vibration that occurs when the body is tapped. A similar approach that uses a different material was proposed by Sugiura et al [6], which leverages the photo-reflective sensor, using an elastic fabric as the deformable material. Sugiura et al developed and investigated a soft interface using a stocking that can be attached to and cover any object.…”

Section: On-body Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our previous works are [9,13,6]. A similar approach proposed by Sugiura et al [13] leverages the photo-reflective sensor, using an elastic fabric as the deformable material.…”

Section: Photo-reflectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The iRing, which leverages a photo-reflective sensor to detect the gestures of the finger on which the ring is worn, is proposed in [9]. The next step in the approach for adapting IR sensing for the purpose of biological sensing is to apply it for sensing the tangential force of the skin, as done by Makino et al [6]. They used skin deformation sensing to find the relationship between the sensor's distance from the skin and the tangential force that is applied parallel to the arm bone.…”

Section: Photo-reflectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…After conducting two works on skin sensing technology [9,6], our focus has progressed to utilizing skin as an interface. Ideas of using a user's body as a part of an input interface were already developed in the field of human-computer interaction [7,10].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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SenSkin

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et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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We present a sensing technology and input method that uses skin deformation estimated through a thin band-type device attached to the human body, the appearance of which seems socially acceptable in daily life. An input interface usually requires feedback. SenSkin provides tactile feedback that enables users to know which part of the skin they are touching in order to issue commands. The user, having found an acceptable area before beginning the input operation, can continue to input commands without receiving explicit feedback. We developed an experimental device with two armbands to sense three-dimensional pressure applied to the skin. Sensing tangential force on uncovered skin without haptic obstacles has not previously been achieved. SenSkin is also novel in that quantitative tangential force applied to the skin, such as that of the forearm or fingers, is measured. An infrared (IR) reflective sensor is used since its durability and inexpensiveness make it suitable for everyday human sensing purposes. The multiple sensors located on the two armbands allow the tangential and normal force applied to the skin dimension to be sensed. The input command is learned and recognized using a Support Vector Machine (SVM). Finally, we show an application in which this input method is implemented.

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