Skin-On Interface is a skin-like interface that users can interact with through a variety of touch gestures that are typically associated with the skin. (pinching, poking, etc)
This was created by 6 people: Marc Teyssier, Gilles Bailly, Catherine Pelachaud, Eric Lecolinet, Andrew Conn, Anne Roudaut (and was published and documented on Marc Teyssier’s site).
Materials
Stretchy conductive yarn
Silicone (2 part) and pigment
Hardware interface (Muca Breakout)
Fabrication
Past iterations included attempts to utilize conductive ink, conductive fabric, and conductive silicone.
Their fabrication mimickes human skin down to the layers:
How it works
Matrix layout with 112 sensing electrodes and 21 transmitting electrodes x mutual capacitance
Resistance would have failed because it required larger electrodes.
On mutual capacitance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYsCzrpyOdM
On research: https://marcteyssier.com/content/publications/uist19-skinon-teyssier.pdf
Code
https://github.com/muca-board/Muca
computer vision: https://github.com/muca-board/Muca/blob/master/examples/Muca_ComputerVision/Muca_ComputerVision_Processing/Muca_ComputerVision_Processing.pde
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