Assignment 5: Research on Sensors

by leah

Due: 3pm, Tuesday, October 25, 2011
See student posts here

For this assignment, you’ll research different classes of sensor materials in small teams. Each team is assigned a category of sensor and a paper that should provide a foundation for further research. For Tuesday’s class you should prepare a 10 minute presentation and a blog post (on this site) that documents your research.

Your talk should include:

  • Identification of at least one additional scholarly paper that discusses a similar sensor. Good places to look are IEEE explore, the ACM digital library, and google scholar. This paper should also inform your talk and blog post.
  • An explanation of the basic properties of the sensor, how it works, and how it’s constructed.
  • Identification of at least one supplier of the sensor (or its constituent parts). Provide information about cost and any safety concerns. You should be able to reasonably acquire material from this supplier.
  • 1-3 examples (no more than 3) of an art, design, or engineering project that employed a similar sensor. Videos and photos are preferred. Try to avoid using examples from the papers you were assigned.
  • Reflections on how you might use the sensor in your own practice.

Your blog post should include:

  • The material covered in your talk, plus:
  • Links to material suppliers you’ve found.
  • A link to a pdf of your research presentation.

Add your blog post to the the Sensors and Research categories.

Groups, materials, and starter papers are given below:

Group 1. Bend and Stretch Switches
Jill Sherman
Woong Ki Sung
Farre Nixon

Slyper, R., Poupyrev, I., and Hodgins, J. Sensing through structure. In Proceedings of the Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Conference (TEI), ACM Press (2011), 213-220.

Group 2. Chemiresistors
Oz Agar
Dena Molnar
Shan Gao

Dong, X.M., Fu, R.W., Zhang, M.Q., Zhang, B., and Rong, M.Z. Electrical resistance response of carbon black filled amorphous polymer composite sensors to organic vapors at low vapor concentrations. Carbon 42, 12-13 (2004), 2551-2559.

Group 3. “Natural” Sensors
Sam Jacoby
Fangbing Qiu
Adedoyin Ogunniyi

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.

Group 4. Fiber Optic Bend Sensors
Timothee Boitouzet
Sara Hendren

Kuang, K.S.C., Cantwell, W.J., and Scully, P.J. An evaluation of a novel plastic optical fibre sensor for axial strain and bend measurements. Measurement Science and Technology 13, (2002), 1523-1534.

Group 5. Pressure and Proximity Sensing Matrices (Capacitive)
Nicole Tariverdian
Daekwon Park

Rekimoto, J. SmartSkin. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI), ACM Press (2002), 113-120.

Group 6. Infrared Ink + Cameras
Jason Wee

Rosner, D. and Ryokai, K. Weaving memories into handcrafted artifacts with Spyn. CHI ’08 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, ACM (2008), 2331–2336.