A 26-Contact Tangible Pen-Like Input Device for Capacitive Displays

Lisa A Elkin (1, 2) , Jean-Baptiste Beau (1) , Géry Casiez (3, 4, 5, 6) , Daniel Vogel (1)

1 David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2 Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering [Seattle]
3 Université de Lille
4 LOKI - Technology and knowledge for interaction
5 IUF - Institut universitaire de France
6 CRIStAL - Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189

We designed and created a new self-contained tangible pen-like input device prototype that can sense all 26 con- tacts and works with any capacitive display using a con- ductive case designed with pliable corners. Contacts are distinguished using the device angle from an internal IMU. We further designed a 3D “mirror” visualization that displays a re-configurable mapping of commands to contacts to en- able discovery of command-to-contact mappings.

Mots clés: pen input; tangible interfaces; command selection

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Lisa A Elkin, Jean-Baptiste Beau, Géry Casiez, Daniel Vogel. A 26-Contact Tangible Pen-Like Input Device for Capacitive Displays. Adjunct Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020), Demonstration, 2020, pp.1-4. ⟨10.1145/3334480.3383157⟩. ⟨hal-02919705⟩