FiberBoard - Compact multi-touch display using channeled light

Daniel Jackson, Tom Bartindale, Patrick Olivier

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    Abstract

    Multi-touch displays based on infrared (IR) light offer many advantages over alternative technologies. Existing IR multi-touch devices either use complex custom electronic sensor arrays, or a camera that must be placed relatively distant from the display. FiberBoard is an easily constructed compact IR-sensing multi-touch display. Using an array of optical fibers, reflected IR light is channeled to a camera. As the fibers are flexible the camera is free to be positioned so as to minimize the depth of the device. The resulting display is around one tenth of the depth of a conventional camera-based multi-touch display. We describe our prototype, its novel calibration process, and virtual camera software based on existing multi-touch image processing tools.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationITS 2009 - The ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, Proceedings
    Pages25-28
    Number of pages4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2009
    EventACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces Conference 2009 - Banff, Canada
    Duration: 23 Nov 200925 Nov 2009
    Conference number: 4th
    https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1731903

    Conference

    ConferenceACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces Conference 2009
    Abbreviated titleITS 2009
    Country/TerritoryCanada
    CityBanff
    Period23/11/0925/11/09
    Internet address

    Keywords

    • Fiber optics
    • Infrared sensing
    • Multi-touch

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