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Lamello: Passive Acoustic Sensing for Tangible Input Components

Authors:

Valkyrie Savage,

Björn Hartmann,

Dan B. Goldman,

Gautham Mysore,

Wilmot LiAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1277 - 1280

https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702207

Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

Abstract

We describe Lamello, an approach for creating tangible input components that recognize user interaction via passive acoustic sensing. Lamello employs comb-like structures with varying-length tines at interaction points (e.g., along slider paths). Moving a component generates tine strikes; a real-time audio processing pipeline analyzes the resultant sounds and emits high-level interaction events. Our main contributions are in the co-design of the tine structures, information encoding schemes, and audio analysis. We demonstrate 3D printed Lamello-powered buttons, sliders, and dials.

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Lamello: Passive Acoustic Sensing for Tangible Input Components
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/2702123

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