Metallized paper is patterned to create touch pads of arrayed buttons that are sensitive to contact with both bare and gloved fingers. The paper-based keypad detects the change in capacitance associated with the touch of a finger to one of its buttons. Mounted on an alarmed cardboard box, the keypad requires the appropriate sequence of touches to disarm the system.

In this paper, we present a new type of button, choreographic button, and an interactive art installation, Bounce, Duck, Pogo, Dive, to highlight features and abilities of this new type of button. A person’s presence in an environment is often determined by physical movements. Emotional presence can be delivered by physical action as well. A person’s movement can convey a specific meaning to ot...

For both operations, the time sequence at each pixel is binned in a number of points that can be chosen by the user. This is dome using the “power of two” button in the screen. The default value is 6, which mean that the entire time sequence is divided in 64 parts (2 to the power of 6), independently on the length of the time sequence. These 64 averaged images form the image sequence from which...

When designing questionnaires for iPad an important design decision is whether to use popover listings or button listings for representing singlechoice selections. In this paper we examined effects of each listing method on performance and subjective preferences when performing a non-linear selection task. A quantitative experiment (N = 39) with the two within-factors (1) listing method (popove...

Back of device touch screen capable game systems have been commercially available since the release of the Playstation Vita in 2012, however the use of these touch screens in games has been limited. With the release of the touch screen lacking Playstation Vita TV, it seemed as though the use of the second touch screen would become even less common as developers produce games with features commo...