{"id":379235,"date":"2010-03-02T07:29:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T12:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=13861"},"modified":"2010-03-02T07:29:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T12:29:18","slug":"microsoft-develops-technology-for-turning-your-body-into-a-control-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/379235","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft develops technology for turning your body into a control surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13861\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13861&amp;source=WMPoweruser&amp;style=normal&amp;service=bit.ly\" height=\"61\" width=\"50\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><object width=\"630\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RCgY_RIvDyE&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RCgY_RIvDyE&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"630\" height=\"505\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisharrison.net\/\">Chris Harrison<\/a> at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, along with Dan Morris and Desney Tan at <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/um\/redmond\/groups\/cue\/skinput\/index.html\">Microsoft\u2019s research lab <\/a> have created a system that allows users to use their own hands and arms as touch screens by detecting the various ultralow-frequency sounds produced when tapping different parts of the skin. <\/p>\n<p>An armband houses an array of sensors that collect the signals generated by the skin taps and then calculates which part of the display you want to activate.<\/p>\n<p>The system closes the loop using a pico-projector to show menus and other selectable media on your arm and the complete system has an accuracy of 95.5%.<\/p>\n<p>More details can be found in this <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/um\/redmond\/groups\/cue\/publications\/HarrisonSkinputCHI2010.pdf\">Microsoft Research paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is unlikely the system will find implementation in our smartphones any time soon, but I do wonder if the accelerometer in our current devices are sensitive enough for a crude version that can do volume up, down, pause and start?&#160; Any developers interested in giving it a try?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/emergingtech\/?p=2146\" >ZDNet.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Harrison at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, along with Dan Morris and Desney Tan at Microsoft\u2019s research lab have created a system that allows users to use their own hands and arms as touch screens by detecting the various ultralow-frequency sounds produced when tapping different parts of the skin. An armband houses an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}