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Perangkat Wearable menggunakan  thumbnail  ke track pad nirkabel miniatur

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Wearable device
turns user's thumbnail into a miniature wireless track pad

Date:

April 16, 2015

Source:

Massachusetts
Institute of Technology

Summary:

Researchers are
developing a new wearable device that turns the user's thumbnail into a
miniature wireless track pad. They envision that the technology could let users
control wireless devices when their hands are full -- answering the phone while
cooking, for instance. It could also augment other interfaces, allowing someone
texting on a cellphone, say, to toggle between symbol sets without interrupting
his or her typing. Finally, it could enable subtle communication in
circumstances that require it, such as sending a quick text to a child while
attending an important meeting.

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researchers at the MIT
Media Laboratory are developing a new wearable device that turns the user's
thumbnail into a miniature wireless track pad.

They envision that the technology could let users control wireless devices
when their hands are full -- answering the phone while cooking, for instance.
It could also augment other interfaces, allowing someone texting on a
cellphone, say, to toggle between symbol sets without interrupting his or her
typing. Finally, it could enable subtle communication in circumstances that
require it, such as sending a quick text to a child while attending an
important meeting.

The researchers describe a prototype of the device, called NailO, in a
paper they're presenting next week at the Association for Computing Machinery's
Computer-Human Interaction conference in Seoul, South Korea.

According to Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, an MIT graduate student in media arts and
sciences and one of the new paper's lead authors, the device was inspired by
the colorful stickers that some women apply to their nails. "It's a
cosmetic product, popular in Asian countries," says Kao, who is Taiwanese.
"When I came here, I was looking for them, but I couldn't find them, so
I'd have my family mail them to me."

Indeed, the researchers envision that a commercial version of their device
would have a detachable membrane on its surface, so that users could coordinate
surface patterns with their outfits. To that end, they used capacitive sensing
-- the same kind of sensing the iPhone's touch screen relies on -- to register
touch, since it can tolerate a thin, nonactive layer between the user's finger
and the underlying sensors.

Instant access

As the site for a wearable input device, however, the thumbnail has other
advantages: It's a hard surface with no nerve endings, so a device affixed to
it wouldn't impair movement or cause discomfort. And it's easily accessed by
the other fingers -- even when the user is holding something in his or her
hand.

"It's very unobtrusive," Kao explains. "When I put this on,
it becomes part of my body. I have the power to take it off, so it still gives
you control over it. But it allows this very close connection to your
body."

To build their prototype, the researchers needed to find a way to pack
capacitive sensors, a battery, and three separate chips -- a microcontroller, a
Bluetooth radio chip, and a capacitive-sensing chip -- into a space no larger
than a thumbnail. "The hardest part was probably the antenna design,"
says Artem Dementyev, a graduate student in media arts and sciences and the
paper's other lead author. "You have to put the antenna far enough away
from the chips so that it doesn't interfere with them."

Kao and Dementyev are joined on the paper by their advisors, principal
research scientist Chris Schmandt and Joe Paradiso, an associate professor of
media arts and sciences. Dementyev and Paradiso focused on the circuit design,
while Kao and Schmandt concentrated on the software that interprets the signal
from the capacitive sensors, filters out the noise, and translates it into
movements on screen.

For their initial prototype, the researchers built their sensors by
printing copper electrodes on sheets of flexible polyester, which allowed them
to experiment with a range of different electrode layouts. But in ongoing
experiments, they're using off-the-shelf sheets of electrodes like those found
in some track pads.

Slimming down

They've also been in discussion with battery manufacturers -- traveling to
China to meet with several of them -- and have identified a technology that
they think could yield a battery that fits in the space of a thumbnail, but is
only half a millimeter thick. A special-purpose chip that combines the
functions of the microcontroller, radio, and capacitive sensor would further
save space.

At such small scales, however, energy efficiency is at a premium, so the
device would have to be deactivated when not actually in use. In the new paper,
the researchers also report the results of a usability study that compared
different techniques for turning it off and on. They found that requiring
surface contact with the operator's finger for just two or three seconds was
enough to guard against inadvertent activation and deactivation.

"Keyboards and mice -- still -- are not going away anytime soon,"
says Steve Hodges, who leads the Sensors and Devices group at Microsoft
Research in Cambridge, England. "But more and more that's being
complemented by use of our devices and access to our data while we're on the
move. I've got desktop, I've got a mobile phone, but that's still not enough.
Different ways of displaying and controlling devices while we're on the go are,
I believe, going to be increasingly important."

"Is it the case that we'll all be walking around with digital
fingernails in five years' time?" Hodges asks. "Maybe it is. Most
likely, we'll have a little ecosystem of these input devices. Some will be
audio based, which is completely hands free. But there are a lot of cases where
that's not going to be appropriate. NailO is interesting because it's thinking
about much more subtle interactions, where gestures or speech input are
socially awkward."

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