Touché is a project that researchers
from Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research are working on. It’s a
project that aims to enhance touch interaction on humans, screens, liquids, and
everyday objects. There are researchers working on this project, from both
Disney and Carnegie Mellon. All these people, working together, came up with a
new version of capacitive sensors. These sensors (capacitive) are the same ones
that are currently used in smartphone screens and tablets for convenient
access. Touché has been making a new version of a sensor that can easily be
attached to many, many things. For example, these new sensors can be attached
to doorknobs, water, sofas, TV’s, even people, and it doesn’t require an entire
layer of sensors on the skin. This project was made to make life easier. For
example, the doorknob you use at home could be fitted with sensors and if you
do a certain movement, a certain message could pop up on the screen that is
fitted to the door. Overall, Touché is a great project that is working to
enhance human interaction.
Next, I honestly think that this
article is quite amazing. It is astounding what all these people are doing with
technology, sensors, and everything else. I would definitely want this product.
I just seem to have one problem with this. Why is this necessary? I love the
idea but I can’t help thinking that it’s not really necessary and it would be
kind of confusing. You would have to memorize exactly which hand signal means
what, especially for a touch sensitive doorknob. I feel like Touché is just
making things a little more complicated than before, because this touch
sensitive technology is a lot just to get a door open, to change a song on your
iPod, or to turn on the TV. To sum it all up, I think this idea for Touché is
excessive but a great effort and I hope that the Disney and Carnegie Mellon
researchers succeed in their mission.
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