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Soap: a pointing and gaming device for the living room and anywhere else

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Patrick Baudisch,

Mike Sinclair,

Andrew WilsonAuthors Info & Claims

SIGGRAPH '07: ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 emerging technologies

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1278280.1278298

Published: 05 August 2007 Publication History

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Soap is a pointing device based on hardware found in a mouse, yet works in mid-air. Soap consists of an optical sensor device moving freely inside a hull made of fabric. As the user applies pressure from the outside, the optical sensor moves independent from the hull. The optical sensor perceives this relative motion and reports it as position input. Soap offers many of the benefits of optical mice, such as high-accuracy sensing. We describe the design of a soap prototype and report our experiences with four application scenarios, including a wall display, Windows Media Center, slide presentation, and interactive video games.

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1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
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