A pressure sensing floor for interactive media applications

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 265, Issue , 2005, Pages 278-281

  Srinivasan, Prashant ^a   Birchfield, David ^a   Qian, Gang ^a   Kidané, Assegid ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

foot sensing; interactive technology; multimodal sensing; networked floorspace; pressure sensing; tangible interfaces

Indexed keywords

FLOORSPACE; INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY; MULTIMODAL SENSING; PRESSURE SENSING; TANGIBLE INTERFACES;

AUDIO SYSTEMS; PRESSURE SENSORS; TECHNOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

FLOORS;

EID: 77953587133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1178477.1178526     Document Type: Conference Paper

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