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Sensing touch using resistive graphs

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Nicholas Fellion,

Roel VertegaalAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems

Pages 195 - 198

https://doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598552

Published: 21 June 2014 Publication History

Abstract

In early design, instrumenting an object with touch sensing capability, especially one with complex surface geometry, can be problematic. In this paper, we show how resistive graph patterns--or resigraphs--can be used to quickly fabricate multi-touch sensors tailored to an object's shape. In very early ideation, resigraphs can be drawn using conductive ink. In later refinements they can be silk-screened or laser cut from off-the-shelf materials. A resigraph uses a commonly available microprocessor (e.g. Arduino), re-quires only three wires, and enables touch input on non-planar and non-developable surfaces.

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