PalmTouch: Using the palm as an additional input modality on commodity smartphones

HV Le, T Kosch, P Bader, S Mayer… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Touchscreens are the most successful input method for smartphones. Despite their flexibility,
touch input is limited to the location of taps and gestures. We present PalmTouch, an …

OptoSense: Towards ubiquitous self-powered ambient light sensing surfaces

D Zhang, JW Park, Y Zhang, Y Zhao, Y Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Ubiquitous computing requires robust and sustainable sensing techniques to detect users
for explicit and implicit inputs. Existing solutions with cameras can be privacy-invasive …

Type-hover-swipe in 96 bytes: A motion sensing mechanical keyboard

S Taylor, C Keskin, O Hilliges, S Izadi… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
We present a new type of augmented mechanical keyboard, capable of sensing rich and
expressive motion gestures performed both on and directly above the device. Our hardware …

Probabilistic palm rejection using spatiotemporal touch features and iterative classification

J Schwarz, R Xiao, J Mankoff, SE Hudson… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Tablet computers are often called upon to emulate classical pen-and-paper input. However,
touchscreens typically lack the means to distinguish between legitimate stylus and finger …

Sparkle: Hover feedback with touchable electric arcs

D Spelmezan, DR Sahoo, S Subramanian - Proceedings of the 2017 …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Many finger sensing input devices now support proximity input, enabling users to perform in-
air gestures. While near-surface interactions increase the input vocabulary, they lack tactile …

RFTouchPads: Batteryless and wireless modular touch sensor pads based on RFID

MJ Hsieh, JL Guo, CY Lu, HW Hsieh… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents RFTouchPads, a system of batteryless and wireless modular hardware
designs of two-dimensional (2D) touch sensor pads based on the ultra-high frequency …

PinPad: touchpad interaction with fast and high-resolution tactile output

J Jung, E Youn, G Lee - Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We explored new interaction scenarios that can be realized when a touchpad outputs fast
and high-resolution spatio-temporal tactile patterns to the touch-sensitive skin on the …

Switching between standard pointing methods with current and emerging computer form factors

MJ Foley, Q Roy, DY Huang, W Li, D Vogel - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We investigate performance characteristics when switching between four pointing methods:
absolute touch, absolute pen, relative mouse, and relative trackpad. The established …

FlickBoard: enabling trackpad interaction with automatic mode switching on a capacitive-sensing keyboard

YC Tung, TY Cheng, NH Yu, C Wang… - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
We present FlickBoard, which combines a touchpad and a keyboard into the same
interaction area to reduce hand movement between a separate keyboard and touchpad. Our …

Sparkle: Towards haptic hover-feedback with electric arcs

D Spelmezan, DR Sahoo, S Subramanian - Adjunct Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We demonstrate a method for stimulating the fingertip with touchable electric arcs above a
hover sensing input device. We built a hardware platform using a high-voltage resonant …