Last posts on human-computer confluence2026-11-12T05:24:44+01:00All Rights Reserved blogSpirithttps://starter.blogspirit.com/https://starter.blogspirit.com/en/explore/posts/tag/human-computer%20confluence/atom.xmlAndrea Gaggiolihttp://gaggio.blogspirit.com/about.htmlSkinput Turns Your Body Into a Touchscreentag:gaggio.blogspirit.com,2010-03-04:19040712010-03-04T14:49:00+01:002010-03-04T14:49:00+01:00 Via New Scientist via Stefano Besana Researchers at Carnegie Mellon...
<p style="text-align: justify;">Via <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18591-body-acoustics-can-turn-your-arm-into-a-touchscreen.html">New Scientist</a> via <a target="_blank" href="http://stefano-besana.net/team/lorenzo-romeo">Stefano Besana</a></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft’s Redmond research lab have developed a working prototype of a system called Skinput that effectively turns your body surface into both screen and input device.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Skinput makes use of a microchip-sized <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/02/10/gadget-trends/">pico projector</a> embedded in an armband to beam an image onto a user’s forearm or hand. When the user taps a menu item or other control icon on the skin, an acoustic detector also in the armband analyzes the ultralow-frequency sound to determine which region of the display has been activated.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The technology behind Skinput is described in this <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/cue/publications/HarrisonSkinputCHI2010.pdf">paper the group will present</a> in April at the Computer-Human Interaction conference in Atlanta.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Check out the video:</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p><object height="300" width="342" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/g3XPUdW9Ryg&hl=it_IT&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/g3XPUdW9Ryg&hl=it_IT&fs=1&" /> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /></object></p>