FiberSense – Multi-touch Fibre Optic Sensing on Non-Planar Surfaces
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- Tom Bartindale
- Dan Jackson
- Professor Patrick Olivier
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| Author(s) | | Bartindale T, Jackson D, Olivier P |
| Publication type | | Report |
| Series Title | | School of Computing Science Technical Report Series |
| Year | | 2009 |
| Date | | October 2009 |
| Report Number | | 1175 |
| Pages | | 7 |
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| Multi-touch interfaces based on light and optical fibres offer many advantages over alternative technologies. Existing multi-touch devices either use complex custom electronic sensor arrays, or a camera that must be placed relatively distant from the interface. FiberSense is an easily constructed light-sensing multi-touch interface. Using an array of optical fibres, reflected light is channelled to a camera. As the fibres are flexible the camera is free to be positioned so as to allow fibres to be routed anywhere within the interfaces. The resulting effect is a tangible interface that can be produced in any shape, with a complete surface of optical sensors. We describe our prototype, its novel calibration process, and virtual camera software used to easily take advantage of the device. |
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| Institution | | School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Place Published | | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| URL | | http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/1175.pdf |
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