Due: 3pm, Tuesday, November 1, 2011 See student posts here Working either individually or in a small group (2-3 people), you will experiment with material sensors in a hands-on project. For Tuesday’s class you should prepare a 5-10 minute presentation and a blog post that documents your project. This project can take one of two [...]
Ade Ogunniyi, Fawn Qiu, Sam Jacoby Nurturing Natural Sensors Kuznetsov, S., Odom, W., Pierce, J., and Paulos, E. Nurturing natural sensors. In Proceedings of the Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), ACM Press (2011), 227-236. Ways of Sensing This paper is not really about sensors at all, at least not what we think of when we [...]
Timothée Boitouzet and Sara Hendren Fiber optic bend sensors blend the powerful transmission properties of optical fibers with multiple sensing capabilities. Through detectable changes in the longitudinal bend of the fiber shaft, these sensors can track changes in strain, pressure, and more—and can sense multiple properties at once in their multi-modal form. Their small size [...]
Daekwon Park & Nicole Tariverdian SmartSkinPresentation_2 (link to our presentation PDF) STARTER PAPER SmartSkin: An Infrastructure for Freehand Manipulation on Interactive Surfaces – Jun Rekimoto SmartSkin: A sensor that recognizes multiple hand positions and shapes and calculates the distance between the hand and the surface by using capacitive sensing and a mesh-shaped antenna.
Due: 3pm, Tuesday, October 25, 2011 See student posts here For this assignment, you’ll research different classes of sensor materials in small teams.
Due: 3pm, Tuesday, October 18, 2011 To deepen your understanding of electricity and begin to build an understanding of sensor technologies, read the following sections from Jacob Fraden’s Handbook of Modern Sensors: Chapter 1: Data Acquisition Chapter 3, Section 3.5: Resistance Optional reading: Chapter 2: Sensor Characteristics Chapter 3: Physical Principles of Sensing All readings [...]