Skin Konnect

Abstract

SkinKonnect, an innovation that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission, permitting the skin to be used as an input surface. It resolves the location of finger taps on the arm and hand by analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through the body. It collects these signals using a novel array of sensors worn a band. This approach provides an always available, naturally portable, and on-body finger input system. To further outline the utility of our methodology, it is finished up with a few proof- of-idea applications we created. The arm band is a crude prototype. The next generation could be made considerably smaller – likely easily fitting into a wristwatch, from there it's fairly simple to associate those tappable areas with different commands in an interface, just as different keystrokes and mouse clicks perform different functions on a computer.