PROJECTS

[Reference /引用はこちら]
Naomi Furui, Katsuhiro Suzuki, Yuta Sugiura, and Maki Sugimoto, SofTouch: Turning Soft Objects into Touch Interfaces by Detachable Photo Sensor Modules, In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Entertainment Computing 2017 (ICEC ’17), Springer, 47-58, September 19-21, 2017, Tsukuba, Japan, Best Paper Award. [DOI]
本研究では、既存の柔軟物の変形を外側から計測することで、侵襲することなくタッチインタフェース化するためのシステムの開発を行う。 数の光センサを搭載した装着型のモジュールを開発し、ユーザが柔軟物を押した時 の柔軟物の変形を光センサで計測することで、接触位置の推定を行う。また本提案手法の有用性を検証するために、開発したモジュールを用いた接触位置の推定精度を評価する実験を行う。

We propose a system that turns everyday soft objects, such as cush-ions, into touch interfaces in a non-intrusive manner. The belt type sensor modules developed in this study, which can be attached to the outside of soft objects, comprise several photo reflective sen-sors to measure the reflection intensity from an object by emitting infrared light (IR LED). When the light is irradiated to a material with the same reflection coefficient, a reflection intensity that is in-versely proportional to the square of the distance can be obtained. Our method uses the sensor modules to measure the change in dis-tance from the sensor to the surface of the soft object, and the touch position is estimated using a Support Vector Machine (SVM). To evaluate our method, we measured the accuracy when touching nine points on a cushion. Using existing everyday soft objects, it is pos-sible to create interfaces that not only blend into the living space naturally but also match the preferences of each user.