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TactileTape: low-cost touch sensing on curved surfaces

Published: 16 October 2011 Publication History

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TactileTape is a one-dimensional touch sensor that looks and behaves like regular tape. It can be constructed from everyday materials (a pencil, tin foil, and shelf liner) and senses single-touch input on curved and deformable surfaces. It is used as a roll of touch sensitive material from which designers cut pieces to quickly add touch sensitive strips to physical prototypes. TactileTape is low-cost, easy to interface, and, unlike current non-planar touch solutions [2,7,11], it is better adapted for the rapid exploration and iteration in the early design stage.

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UIST '11 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium adjunct on User interface software and technology
October 2011
108 pages
ISBN:9781450310147
DOI:10.1145/2046396

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