Skin-on interfaces: A bio-driven approach for artificial skin design to cover interactive devices
2019. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
Marc Teyssier, Gilles Bailly, Catherine Pelachaud, Eric Lecolinet, Andrew Conn & Anne Roudaut.
We propose a paradigm called Skin-On interfaces, in which interactive devices have their own (artificial) skin, thus enabling new forms of input gestures for end-users (e.g. twist, scratch). Our work explores the design space of Skin-On interfaces by following a bio-driven approach: (1) From a sensory point of view, we study how to reproduce the look and feel of the human skin through three user studies;(2) From a gestural point of view, we explore how gestures naturally performed on skin can be transposed to Skin-On interfaces; (3) From a technical point of view, we explore and discuss different ways of fabricating interfaces that mimic human skin sensitivity and can recognize the gestures observed in the previous study; (4) We assemble the insights of our three exploratory facets to implement a series of Skin-On interfaces and we also contribute by providing a toolkit that enables easy reproduction and fabrication.
Full paper
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3332165.3347943
Citation
Teyssier, M., Bailly, G., Pelachaud, C., Lecolinet, E., Conn, A., & Roudaut, A. (2019). Skin-on interfaces: a bio-driven approach for artificial skin design to cover interactive devices. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (pp. 307–322).
BibTeX
@inproceedings{teyssier2019skin, title={Skin-on interfaces: A bio-driven approach for artificial skin design to cover interactive devices}, author={Teyssier, Marc and Bailly, Gilles and Pelachaud, Catherine and Lecolinet, Eric and Conn, Andrew and Roudaut, Anne}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology}, pages={307--322}, year={2019} }