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PopTouch: A Submillimeter Thick Dynamically Reconfigured Haptic Interface with Pressable Buttons

Herbert Shea, Amir Firouzeh, Ayana Mizutani

The interactions with touchscreens rely heavily on vision: The virtual buttons and virtual sliders on a touchscreen provide no mechanical sense of the object they seek to represent. This work presents PopTouch: a 500 mu m thick flexible haptic display that ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Scalable Fabrication and Actuation of a Human Inspired Hand Through 3D Printed Flexures and Combinatorial Actuation

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Kai Christian Junge

The fabrication and control of robot hands with biologically inspired structure remains challenging due to its cost and complexity. In this paper we explore how widely available FDM printers can be used to fabricate complex hand structures by leveraging co ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

The Human-Computer Connection An Overview Of Brain-Computer Interfaces

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz

This article introduces the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCI), which allows the control of devices without the generation of any active motor output but directly from the decoding of the user's brain signals. Here we review the current state of the ...

2019

Neural encoding of auditory features during music perception and imagery

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Stéphanie Martin

Despite many behavioral and neuroimaging investigations, it remains unclear how the human cortex represents spectrotemporal sound features during auditory imagery, and how this representation compares to auditory perception. To assess this, we recorded ele ...

2018

HRI usability evaluation of interaction modes for a teleoperated agricultural robotic sprayer

Thanasis Hadzilacos

Teleoperation of an agricultural robotic system requires effective and efficient human-robot interaction. This paper investigates the usability of different interaction modes for agricultural robot teleoperation. Specifically, we examined the overall influ ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

Multi-contact tactile exploration and interaction with unknown objects

Nicolas Sommer

Humans rely on the sense of touch in almost every aspect of daily life, whether to tie shoelaces, place fingertips on a computer keyboard or find keys inside a bag. With robots moving into human-centered environment, tactile exploration becomes more and mo ...

EPFL2017

Testing the Role of Dorsal Premotor Cortex in Auditory-Motor Association Learning Using Transcranical Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

Interactions between the auditory and the motor systems are critical in music as well as in other domains, such as speech. The premotor cortex, specifically the dorsal premotor cortex (dPMC), seems to play a key role in auditory-motor integration, and in m ...

Public Library Science2016

Google Glass-Directed Monitoring and Control of Microfluidic Biosensors and Actuators

Sandro Carrara, Danilo Demarchi, Irene Taurino

Google Glass is a recently designed wearable device capable of displaying information in a smartphone-like hands-free format by wireless communication. The Glass also provides convenient control over remote devices, primarily enabled by voice recognition c ...

Nature Research2016

Elastomeric Electronic Skin for Prosthetic Tactile Sensation

Stéphanie Lacour, Hadrien Olivier Michaud, Aaron Powers Gerratt

This report demonstrates a wearable elastomer-based electronic skin including resistive sensors for monitoring fi nger articulation and capacitive tactile pressure sensors that register distributed pressure along the entire length of the fi nger. Pressure ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Single-Handed Eyes-Free Universal Input Device

Adrian Dan Tarniceriu

For most people, interacting with a mobile device requires visual commitment to the input mechanism. As a consequence, there are many situations in our daily life when we have to refrain from using these devices, as our vision is already committed: for ins ...

EPFL2015

The Effect of Feedback on Chord Typing

Pierre Dillenbourg, Bixio Rimoldi, Adrian Dan Tarniceriu

The amount of visual feedback when using a mobile device in a busy context is often limited. For example, while texting and walking in a crowded place, we need to focus on the environment and not on the phone. A way to type fast, accurately and with limite ...

2013

A fully integrated Hall sensor microsystem with current-mode output

Maher Kayal, Marc Pastre, Andrea Ajbl

This paper presents a fully integrated Hall sensor microsystem with a current-mode output. The system operates in open-loop and includes a Hall sensor with internal biasing, a fully differential front-end, a preamplifier chain and a voltage-to-current conv ...

2011

Computer Aided Cryptanalysis from Ciphers to Side Channels

Martin Vuagnoux

In this dissertation, we study the security of cryptographic protocols and cryptosystems from the mathematical definition of the primitives, up to their physical implementations in the real world. We propose a representation of the chronological design usi ...

EPFL2010

Compromising Electromagnetic Emanations of Wired and Wireless Keyboards

Martin Vuagnoux, Sylvain Pasini

Computer keyboards are often used to transmit confidential data such as passwords. Since they contain electronic components, keyboards eventually emit electromagnetic waves. These emanations could reveal sensitive information such as keystrokes. The techni ...

USENIX Association2009

Self-Organizing Dsp Circuits

Joël Rossier

Living organisms are endowed with three structural principles: multicellular architecture, cellular division, and cellular differentiation. Implemented in digital according to these principles, our DSP circuits present self-organizing mechanisms like confi ...

Insticc-Inst Syst Technologies Information Control & Communication, Avenida D Manuel L, 27A 2 Esquerdo, Setubal, 2910-595, Portugal2009

A Virtual Keyboard System based on Multi-Level Feature Matching

Edoardo Charbon

In this paper a Multi-Level Feature Matching (MLFM) method is presented for 3D hand posture reconstruction of a virtual keyboard system. The human hand is modeled with a mixture of different levels of detail, from skeletal to polygonal surface representati ...

2008

How to move from perception to design: application to keystroke sound

Hervé Lissek, Romain Boulandet

Nowadays, customers have legitimate requirements as regards quality that marketing and consumers departments attempt to satisfy. The sound is well-known to enhance or detract from our pleasure in possessing or using a product. Sound quality engineering is ...

2008

Factoring end-user expectations into the sound design process of computer keyboards

Hervé Lissek, Romain Boulandet

The poor acoustic comfort of usual commercial products is often perceived as annoying. Today, more and more companies have realized that sound can be an important component of product attributes and image. They are interested in having acoustic guidelines ...

2008

Non-Invasive Brain-Machine Interaction

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Pierre Ferrez, Eileen Lew Yi Lee

The promise of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) technology is to augment human capabilities by enabling interaction with computers through a conscious and spontaneous modulation of the brainwaves after a short training period. Indeed, by analyzing brain ele ...

World Scientific Publishing2008

3D Hand Model Fitting for Virtual Keyboard System

Edoardo Charbon

In this paper, a 3D hand model fitting method is presented which can recover the accurate finger positions for a virtual keyboard system. The 3D hand model consists of a detailed polygonal skin driven by an underlying skeleton system. The system uses a str ...

2007