Sensurfaces

Brice Parilusyan (1) , Marc Teyssier (1) , Valentin Martinez-Missir (1) , Clément Duhart (1) , Marcos Serrano (2, 3)

1 PULV - Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci
2 IRIT-ELIPSE - Etude de L’Interaction Personne SystèmE
3 UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier

Ubiquitous touch sensing surfaces are largely influenced by touchscreens' look and feel and fail to express the physical richness of existing surrounding materials. We introduce Sensurfaces, a plug-and-play electronic module that allows to rapidly experiment with touch-sensitive surfaces while preserving the original appearance of materials. Sensurfaces is composed of plug-and-play modules that can be connected together to expand the size and number of materials composing a sensitive surface. The combination of Sensurfaces modules allows the creation of small or large multi-material sensitive surfaces that can detect multi-touch but also body proximity, pose, pass, or even human steps. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of Sensurfaces. We propose a design space describing the factors of Sensurfaces interfaces. Then, through a series of technical evaluations, we demonstrate the capabilities of our system. Finally, we report on two workshops validating the usability of our system.

Keywords: multi-touch interface; multi-material; scalable; WiFi; capacitive; modularity

Domains: Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]

Brice Parilusyan, Marc Teyssier, Valentin Martinez-Missir, Clément Duhart, Marcos Serrano. Sensurfaces. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies , 2022, 6 (2, article 67), pp.1-19. ⟨10.1145/3534616⟩. ⟨hal-03848351⟩