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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

Systematic design of a multi-input multi-output controller by model-based decoupling: a demonstration on TCV using multi-species gas injection

Basil Duval, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Cristian Galperti, Artur Perek

In this paper, we present the first results of a systematically designed multi-input multi-output gas-injection controller on Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV). We demonstrate the simultaneous real-time control of the NII emission front position and l ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

VIDEZZO: Dependency-aware Virtual Device Fuzzing

Mathias Josef Payer, Flavio Toffalini, Qiang Liu

A virtual machine interacts with its host environment through virtual devices, driven by virtual device messages, e.g., I/O operations. By issuing crafted messages, an adversary can exploit a vulnerability in a virtual device to escape the virtual machine, ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2023

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

Voluntary self-touch increases body ownership

Olaf Blanke, Giulio Rognini, Polona Pozeg

Experimental manipulations of body ownership have indicated that multisensory integration is central to forming bodily self representation. Voluntary self touch is a unique multisensory situation involving corresponding motor, tactile and proprioceptive si ...

Frontiers Media2015

Live Texturing of Augmented Reality Characters from Colored Drawings

Pascal Fua, Stéphane Magnenat, Tien Dat Ngo

Coloring books capture the imagination of children and provide them with one of their earliest opportunities for creative expression. However, given the proliferation and popularity of digital devices, real-world activities like coloring can seem unexcitin ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

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

Disambiguation Canvas: A Precise Selection Technique for Virtual Environments

Ronan Boulic, Anderson Maciel, Henrique Galvan Debarba

We present the disambiguation canvas, a technique developed for easy, accurate and fast selection of small objects and objects inside cluttered virtual environments. Disambiguation canvas rely on selection by progressive refinement, it uses a mobile device ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2013

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

Multi-Finger Haptic Devices Integrating Miniature Short-Stroke Actuators

Grégory Savioz

The omnipresence of electronic devices in our everyday life goes together with a trend that makes us always more immersed during their utilization. By immersion, we mean that during the development of a new product, it is more and more required to stimulat ...

EPFL2012

Self-sensing of linear short-stroke actuators for multi-finger haptic interfaces using induced high frequency oscillations

Yves Perriard, Grégory Savioz

With the aim of providing a new touch sensation to the user, the design of innovative multi-finger haptic devices passes through the research for efficient and low-cost methods for position sensing. This paper thus addresses a novel self-sensing method for ...

IEEE2012

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

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

Application of 3D range camera in virtual human-computer interfaces

In this work, we propose new ways to employ 3D-ranging systems in advanced human-computer interfaces and show that they can be used for precise hand-tracking systems aiming at virtual keyboard or mouse applications. We first implement a Structured Light (S ...

EPFL2008

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

Non-Invasive Brain-Actuated Interaction

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

Springer Verlag2007