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Rainbowfish

Issue: XXI.5 September + October 2014
Page: 6
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Authors:
Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Sebastian Beck, Daniel Wilbers, Arjan Kuiper

Gesture-based interaction methods are now supported by a wide variety of devices, such as capacitive trackpads and capacitive 3D gesture-recognition systems. When interacting with such proximity-sensing surfaces, users face the challenge that the supported gestures are not directly apparent. Rainbowfish tackles this problem by combining a semi-transparent capacitive proximity-sensing surface with an LED array. The LEDs are used to visually indicate possible gestural movements and provide feedback on the current interaction status. Aside from computer-centered interaction, Rainbowfish can be used as a low-cost gesture-recognition system for home automation, for example as a gesture-controllable door opener.

http://www.opencapsense.org

Grosse-Puppendahl, T., Braun, A., Kamieth, F., and Kuijper, A. Swiss-cheese extended: An object recognition method for ubiquitous interfaces based on capacitive proximity sensing. Proc. CHI 2013. ACM, New York, 2013.

Grosse-Puppendahl, T., Beck, S., Wilbers, D., Zeiss, S., von Wilmsdorff, J., and Kuijper, A. Ambient gesture-recognizing surfaces with visual feedback. Proc. HCII'14. Springer, 2014.

Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Fraunhofer IGD
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Sebastian Beck, Fraunhofer IGD
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Daniel Wilbers, Fraunhofer IGD
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Arjan Kuijper, Fraunhofer IGD and Technische Universität Darmstadt
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