Interaction system with SmartSkin

We develop various interaction techniques for SmartSkin, a human body shape sensor based on capacitive sensing technique, developed by Jun Rekimoto (Sony Computer Science Laboratory).

We have developed Multiple Pointing Input System on SmartSkin which allows multi-touch interaction for concurrent and direct manipulation for GUI. Besides, we research on shape-based interaction techniques for a desktop environment, entertainment applications or media art.

Materials

• Table-size SmartSkin demo movie (mpeg)
• "Marble Market" demo movie (mpeg)

Related work

• Multiple Pointing Input System

Related Information

• You can play "MarbleMarket", a video game application using SmartSkin at Sony ExploraScience.
• "As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation" (Takeo Igarashi et al.) proposed a novel technique that lets a user move and deform a two-dimensional shape.

Publications

• "Interaction Techniques for SmartSkin" (PDF)
  Kentaro Fukuchi, Jun Rekimoto: Proceedings of UIST 2002 , 2002.11 (demonstration paper)
• "Interaction Techniques on Human Body Shape Sensor for Entertainment Application" (PDF)
  Kentaro Fukuchi, Jun Rekimoto: Proceedings of Entertainment Computing 2003 (IPSJ Symposium Series Vol.2003, No.1) pp.70-74, 2003.1 (Japanese)
• "Massively Parallel Manipulation Techniques with SmartSkin" (PDF)
  Kentaro Fukuchi, Jun Rekimoto: Proceedings of FIT2003 , 2003.9 (Japanese)
• "Multiple Pointing Input System on SmartSkin"
  Kentaro Fukuchi, Jun Rekimoto: IPSJ Journal Vol.46 No.7 pp.1682-1692, 2005.7 (Japanese)
• "Multi-track Scratch Player on a Multi-touch Sensing Device" (PDF)
  Kentaro Fukuchi: Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2007 (LNCS 4740) pp.211-218, 2007.9
• "Marble Market: Bimanual Interactive Game with a Body Shape Sensor" (PDF)
  Kentaro Fukuchi, Jun Rekimoto: Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2007 (LNCS 4740) pp.374-380, 2007.9
• "An Evaluation of Concurrent Manipulation of Multiple Components on a Multipoint Input GUI"
  Kentaro Fukuchi, Jun Rekimoto: IPSJ Journal Vol.49 No.7 pp.2500-2508, 2008.7 (Japanese)
• "Concurrent Manipulation of Multiple Components on Graphical User Interface" (PDF)
  Kentaro Fukuchi: PhD thesis, Tokyo Institute of Technology , 2006.7