Title
Designing Vibrotactile Widgets with Printed Actuators and Sensors.
Abstract
Physical controls are fabricated through complicated assembly of parts requiring expensive machinery and are prone to mechanical wear. One solution is to embed controls directly in interactive surfaces, but the proprioceptive part of gestural interaction that makes physical controls discoverable and usable solely by hand gestures is lost and has to be compensated, by vibrotactile feedback for instance. Vibrotactile actuators face the same aforementioned issues as for physical controls. We propose printed vibrotactile actuators and sensors. They are printed on plastic sheets, with piezoelectric ink for actuation, and with silver ink for conductive elements, such as wires and capacitive sensors. These printed actuators and sensors make it possible to design vibrotactile widgets on curved surfaces, without complicated mechanical assembly.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3131785.3131800
UIST '17: The 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Québec City QC Canada October, 2017
Keywords
Field
DocType
Vibrotactile feedback, printed electronics, printed actuators, printed sensors, widgets, piezoelectric ink, thin-film actuators
USable,Printed electronics,Inkwell,Gesture,Computer science,Capacitive sensing,Human–computer interaction,Electrical engineering,Piezoelectricity,Actuator,Embedded system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5419-6
3
0.41
References 
Authors
6
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian Frisson14010.74
Julien Decaudin230.41
Thomas Pietrzak310710.14
Alexander Ng4202.42
Pauline Poncet530.41
Fabrice Casset641.57
Antoine Latour730.41
Stephen Brewster84913474.60