MultiSoft: Soft Sensor Enabling Real-Time Multimodal Sensing with Contact Localization and Deformation Classification

MultiSoft: Soft Sensor Enabling Real-Time Multimodal Sensing with Contact Localization and Deformation Classification

by | Sep 30, 2018 | 2018, Embedded Input, Fabrication, Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, Luis Paredes, Publications, Recent Publications, Sang Ho Yoon, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Tangibles

Abstract: We introduce MultiSoft, a multilayer soft sensor capable of sensing real-time contact localization, classification of deformation types, and estimation of deformation magnitudes. We propose a multimodal sensing pipeline that carries out both inverse problem...
Plain2Fun: Augmenting Ordinary Objects with Interactive Functions by Auto-Fabricating Surface Painted Circuits

Plain2Fun: Augmenting Ordinary Objects with Interactive Functions by Auto-Fabricating Surface Painted Circuits

by | Jun 23, 2018 | 2018, Fabrication, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, Pratik Chawla, Recent Publications, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Tianyi Wang

The growing makers’ community demands better supports for designing and fabricating interactive functional objects. Most of the current approaches focus on embedding desired functions within new objects. Instead, we advocate repurposing the existing objects and...
Scenariot: Spatially Mapping Smart Things Within Augmented Reality Scenes

Scenariot: Spatially Mapping Smart Things Within Augmented Reality Scenes

by | Apr 21, 2018 | 2018, Featured Publications, HUMAN SHAPE INTERACTION, Ke Huo, Recent Publications, Sang Ho Yoon, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Yuanzhi Cao

The emerging simultaneous localizing and mapping (SLAM) based tracking technique allows the mobile AR device spatial awareness of the physical world. Still, smart things are not fully supported with the spatial awareness in AR. Therefore, we present Scenariot, a...