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NailO: Fingernails as an Input Surface
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We present NailO, a nail-mounted gestural input surface. Using capacitive sensing on printed electrodes, the interface can distinguish on-nail finger swipe gestures with high accuracy (>92%). NailO works in real-time: we miniaturized the system to fit on the fingernail, while wirelessly transmitting the sensor data to a mobile phone or PC. NailO allows one-handed and always-available input, while being unobtrusive and discrete. Inspired by commercial nail stickers, the device blends into the user's body, is customizable, fashionable and even removable. We show example applications of using the device as a remote controller when hands are busy and using the system to increase the input space of mobile phones.
Date issued
2015-04Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory; Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Journal
Proceedings of CHI 2015
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Citation
Kao, Hsin-Liu (Cindy), Artem Dementyev, Joseph A. Paradiso, and Chris Schmandt. "NailO: Fingernails as an Input Surface." CHI 2015, April 18-23, 2015, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Version: Final published version
ISBN
978-1-4503-3145-6