Towards the development of an EIT-based stretchable sensor for multi-touch industrial human-computer interaction systems

Russo, S; Nefti-Meziani, S; Gulrez, T; Carbonaro, N; Tognetti, A

Abstract

In human-computer interaction studies, an interaction is often considered as a kind of information or discrete internal states of an individual that can be transmitted in a loss-free manner from people to computing interfaces (or robotic interfaces) and vice-versa. This project aims to investigate processes capable of communicating and cooperating by adjusting their schedules to match the evolving execution circumstances, in a way that maximise the quality of their joint activities. By enabling human-computer interactions, the process will emerge as a framework based on the concept of expectancy, demand, and need of the human and computer together, for understanding the interplay between people and computers.
The idea of this work is to utilise touch feedback from humans as a channel for communication thanks to an artificial sensitive skin made of a thin, flexible, and stretchable material acting as transducer. As a proof of concept, we demonstrate that the first prototype of our artificial sensitive skin can detect surface contacts and show their locations with an image reconstructing the internal electrical conductivity of the sensor.

Citation

Russo, S., Nefti-Meziani, S., Gulrez, T., Carbonaro, N., & Tognetti, A. (2016, July). Towards the development of an EIT-based stretchable sensor for multi-touch industrial human-computer interaction systems. Presented at 8th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, Toronto, Canada

• Presentation Conference Type: Lecture
• Conference Name: 8th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design
• Conference Location: Toronto, Canada
• Start Date: Jul 17, 2016
• End Date: Jul 22, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Jun 19, 2016
• Publication Date: Jun 19, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jul 24, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 24, 2017
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Series Number: 9741
• Book Title: Cross-Cultural Design 8th International Conference, CCD 2016
• ISBN: 9783319400921;-9783319400938
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40093-8_55
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40093-8_55
• Related Public URLs: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-40093-8; http://2016.hci.international/pagesmith/16
• Additional Information: Additional Information : Proceedings ISBN: 978-3-319-40092-1; Event Type : Conference; Projects : SMART-E