Title
Capacitive near-field communication for ubiquitous interaction and perception
Abstract
Smart objects within instrumented environments offer an always available and intuitive way of interacting with a system. Connecting these objects to other objects in range or even to smartphones and computers, enables substantially innovative interaction and sensing approaches. In this paper, we investigate the concept of Capacitive Near-Field Communication to enable ubiquitous interaction with everyday objects in a short-range spatial context. Our central contribution is a generic framework describing and evaluating this communication method in Ubiquitous Computing. We prove the relevance of our approach by an open-source implementation of a low-cost object tag and a transceiver offering a high-quality communication link at typical distances up to 15 cm. Moreover, we present three case studies considering tangible interaction for the visually impaired, natural interaction with everyday objects, and sleeping behavior analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2632048.2632053
UbiComp
Keywords
Field
DocType
input devices and strategies,capacitive near-field communication,capacitive communication,intrabody communication,capacitive sensing,graphical user interfaces
Communication link,Near field communication,Transceiver,Computer science,Capacitive sensing,Human–computer interaction,Smart objects,Ubiquitous computing,Spatial contextual awareness,Multimedia,Perception
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
25
1.27
30
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl112212.37
Sebastian Herber2251.27
Raphael Wimmer328123.35
Frank Englert4638.66
Sebastian Beck5415.39
Julian von Wilmsdorff6404.47
Reiner Wichert725029.12
Arjan Kuijper81063133.22