Midas: Fabricating custom capacitive touch sensors to prototype interactive objects

UIST'12 - Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 579-587

  Savage, Valkyrie ^a   Zhang, Xiaohan ^a   Hartmann, Björn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitive touch sensing; Design tools; Fabrication; Prototyping

Indexed keywords

3-D PRINTING; CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSING; CONDUCTIVE INK; DESIGN TOOL; DIGITAL FABRICATION; HIGH LEVEL SPECIFICATION; INTERACTIVE OBJECTS; INTERACTIVITY; MEDIA PLAYERS; RECORD-AND-REPLAY; REMOTE APPLICATIONS; SENSITIVE AREA; TOUCH SENSORS;

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; CONTACT SENSORS; DESIGN; FABRICATION; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84869007949     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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