Author: tianhony@andrew.cmu.edu

I was inspired by one of the papers presented in class by Yanwen: Weaving a Second Skin. I want to take a deep look into the proposed on-skin interfaces through weaving and further explore the domain of integrating circuits into weaving to invent novel interaction/sensing technology . For the artistic objective, I’m curious to see
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Counting memories is a interactive installation by Chiharu Shiota. According to an article by Colossal, Shiota explains in a statement of the exhibition: Each number defines us individually but also connects us universally. Numbers comfort us, we share dates that are important to us, and they help us understand ourselves. Our history is collected through
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The French artist Michel Blazy had a few installations using foam. These installations have foam oozing out of bins, or some tall and large structures. Audience can interact with the installation by touching the foam. Creating foam uses simply everyday materials, and the shape of the foams is indeterministic yet expected. There is only control
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Yang Zhang, Junhan Zhou, Gierad Laput, and Chris Harrison. 2016. SkinTrack: Using the Body as an Electrical Waveguide for Continuous Finger Tracking on the Skin. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1491–1503. DOI:https://doi-org.proxy.library.cmu.edu/10.1145/2858036.2858082 Do you have any conflict of interest in
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The root paper was a soft keypad sensor paper I found in the last assignment, and I was interested in novel sensing technologies that are related to skins. I used Google Scholar to find papers that cited the root paper and found the following two papers. The first paper proposed customizable on-body touch sensors for
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A hyperelastic, thin, transparent pressure sensitive keypad(12 keys) is fabricated by embedding a silicone rubber film with conductive liquid-filled microchannels and demonstrates the use of all-compliant sensing technology. R. K. Kramer, C. Majidi and R. J. Wood, “Wearable tactile keypad with stretchable artificial skin,” 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, 2011, pp. 1103-1107,
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This sensory sleeves interests me because the sensors are screenprinted directly into the fabric sleeve as opposed to attaching a sensor onto clothes, which has less a disruptive effect compared with wearing an additional sensor. @INPROCEEDINGS{7989649, author={M. C. {Yuen} and H. {Tonoyan} and E. L. {White} and M. {Telleria} and R. K. {Kramer}}, booktitle={2017 IEEE
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