THE VIDEO SHELF · capacitive touch sensing
Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Everyday Objects
Disney Research presents Touche, a swept frequency capacitive sensing technique that recognizes complex hand and body configurations, and adds touch sensitivity to humans, liquids and everyday objects.
Why HN readers recommended it
Brought up as an early example of context-aware touch sensing and as part of Disney Research's wider interaction prototypes.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- DisneyResearchHub
- Topic
- capacitive touch sensing
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2025
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From the original HN conversations
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If you liked this, check out another project from Disney labs called "Touché" -- [VIDEO] For some reason, the girl's reactions to the 2 bzzzt-wrong sounds @ 2:55 are hilarious.
smtddr on Hacker News · 2014-10
In Fluid Actuators from Disney Research Make Soft, Safe Robot ArmsDisney researches / develops some really cool stuff. Their Disney Research Hub channel is a goldmine. One of my favorites is Touché. The world becomes your touchscreen: [VIDEO]
jorvi on Hacker News · 2024-01
In Disney unveils the HoloTile floor
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