http://www.joaobordalo.com/articles/2010/03/03/your-skin-as-a-touchscreen en-us 40 Simplicity, Usability, Productivity, Code, Design, Business and more <p>How would you like to use your body as a screen and input device? Well, you will be able to do it in a very near future, according to the following video, which shows Skinput, the result of some experiments from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft’s Redmond research lab.</p> <blockquote><p>Skinput makes use of a microchip-sized pico projector embedded in an armband to beam an image onto a user’s forearm or hand. When the user taps a menu item or other control icon on the skin, an acoustic detector also in the armband analyzes the ultralow-frequency sound to determine which region of the display has been activated.</p></blockquote> <p>For more information, grab the <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/cue/publications/HarrisonSkinputCHI2010.pdf">paper</a> (in pdf format) and watch the video:</p> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/g3XPUdW9Ryg&color1=0x6699&color2=0x54abd6&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/g3XPUdW9Ryg&color1=0x6699&color2=0x54abd6&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <p>RSS readers may need to click <a href="http://joaobordalo.com/articles/2010/03/03/your-skin-as-a-touchscreen">here</a> to watch the video.</p> <p>Via <a href="http://mashable.com/2010/03/03/skinput-turns-your-body-into-a-touchscreen-video">Mashable</a>. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:58:00 -0600 urn:uuid:20a95daa-479c-4978-8e33-401415c124d5 bordalix http://www.joaobordalo.com/articles/2010/03/03/your-skin-as-a-touchscreen hci future microsoft