Magic Finger: Always-Available Input through Finger Instrumentation

Xing-Dong Yang, Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor, George Fitzmaurice

Autodesk Research, University of Alberta, University of Toronto

Presenter: NTU MHCI Lab - Grace 妙恩

Innovation

Invert the relationship between finger and sensing surface with Magic Finger.

Instrument the user’s finger itself, rather than the surface it is touching.

Environmental Texturesand Data Matrix

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Contributions

• Extend users’ touch capability to everyday objects

• Exploration of associated hardware and software design spaces

• Evaluation of its texture sensing accuracy levels

• A set of applications and interactions

Q & A

Micro camera + flow sensor