- Title: Touch sensitive 'creepy' skin phone case
- Date: 25th October 2019
- Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (FILE - OCTOBER 9, 2018) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PhD DESIGN STUDENT MARC TEYSSIER WORKING ON THE MOBILIMB DESIGN AT THE TELECOM PARIS TECH ENGINEERING SCHOOL
- Embargoed: 8th November 2019 12:09
- Keywords: Artificial touch senitive skin smartphone case Bristol Interaction Group Marc Teyssier Telecom ParisTech HCI Sorbonne Université CNRS
- Location: UNKNOWN LOCATION / PARIS, FRANCE
- City: UNKNOWN LOCATION / PARIS, FRANCE
- Country: United Kingdom
- Topics: Information Technologies / Computer Sciences,Science
- Reuters ID: LVA004B2LFZVD
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Researchers have covered a smartphone with life-like, touch-sensitive artificial skin, seeing how users respond to it.
The skin comes in two versions, simple and smooth or ultra-realistic and wrinkly.
Researchers say there are no plans to market the skin, rather it is designed to allow us to study our responses to such a life-like outer coating on an electronic device.
They say the skin will allow new forms of input gestures for the users of interactive devices like smartphones and laptops with touchpads.
The team of researchers at Bristol Interaction Group includes Marc Teyssier, who previously invented a robot finger that attaches to your mobile phone.
It can wriggle across your desk and stroke your hand.
The PhD student said the MobiLimb robotic finger was testbed to see how we can bring touch in human-computer interfaces.
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