ISkin: Flexible, stretchable and visually customizable on-body touch sensors for mobile computing

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-April, Issue , 2015, Pages 2991-3000

  Weigel, Martin ^a   Lu, Tong ^b   Bailly, Gilles ^c   Oulasvirta, Antti ^d   Majidi, Carmel ^b   Steimle, Jürgen ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Electronic skin; Mobile computing; On body input; Stretchable, flexible sensor; Touch input; Wearable computing

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CAPACITIVE SENSORS; CONTACT SENSORS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE COMPUTING; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRONIC SKIN; FLEXIBLE SENSOR; ON-BODY; TOUCH INPUTS; WEARABLE COMPUTING;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

EID: 84949675999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2702123.2702391     Document Type: Conference Paper

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