Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Everyday Objects

Touché proposes a novel Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing technique that can not only detect a touch event, but also recognize complex configurations of the human hands and body. Such contextual information significantly enhances touch interaction in a broad range of applications, from conventional touchscreens to unique contexts and materials. For example, in our explorations we add touch and gesture sensitivity to the human body and liquids. We demonstrate the rich capabilities of Touché with five example setups from different application domains and conduct experimental studies that show gesture classification accuracies of 99% are achievable with our technology.

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[CloneyTheBoss]

Remember that scene in Wall-e, where everyone was morbidly obese because they let technology get so advanced they needed no physical requirements?

This looks a lot like the beginning.

[Shwaggetyshfifty]

This is fantastic, but I hate the idea of Disney being in control of the patent for this.

[more0rl3ss]

2:08 explains it

[James Schuback]

The second application, touch to control mobile device: how does this work? I thought the hardware needs to connect to the object being touched (part of your body?).

[Elviloh]

did she just ate cereals in water ?

[Gaël Giraudeau]

Exclusive footage of a ninja performing secret hand gestures to control is iphone! They are every where.

[LittleLlion]

luckily that's just a choice of the person then, not the fault of the technology, the technology just makes things go faster and without effort though it will not change our activities. So if your activities are to do nothing but sit in front of a tv or computer and eat a lot then you run the chance of gaining weight whereas when you're active and doing different activities throughout the day, you can live a fulfilling life, and that's not so different from how things are today ;-)

[Lucas Batistussi]

Great!

[TheBaffledCloud]

DIDNT YOU SEE ALL THOSE HAND MOVEMENTS?

THIS GUY PROBABLY LOST WEIGHT CHOOSING A SONG ON HIS PHONE

[Joey Fisher]

Smart doorknobs! Finally!