Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.
Project
SideSight
SideSight expands the multi-touch capabilities of small mobile devices beyond the screen. Infrared sensors embedded along each side of device are capable of detecting the presence and position of fingers within the proximity of the…
Project
ThinSight
ThinSight explores a new technique for optical sensing through thin form-factor displays. It allows for detection of fingers and other physical objects close to or on the display surface.
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Phone as a Pixel: Enabling Ad-hoc, Large-Scale Displays Using Mobile Devices
Phone as a Pixel is a scalable, synchronization-free, platform-independent system for creating large, ad-hoc displays from a collection of smaller devices. In contrast to most tiled-display systems, the only requirement for participation is for devices…
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Informal Information Gathering Techniques for Active Reading
GatherReader is a prototype e-reader with both pen and multi-touch input that illustrates several interesting design trade-offs to fluidly interleave content consumption behaviors (reading and flipping through pages) with information gathering and informal organization activities…
