Sailing Skweezee: An Exploration of Squeeze Interaction in VR

Contact Resistance Sensing for Touch and Squeeze Interactions

“…Furthermore, several studies focusing on digital companions are also based on soft squeezable interfaces [20,63], and thus our study can also be applied to develop soft digital companions. As demonstrated in Section 8.1 and also from existing studies, such soft squeezable sensors can be used to develop game controllers [11,13,16]. Compared to commercialized force-sensitive resistors (FSRs), our solution does not introduce any stiffness and can be deformed in all directions.…”

“…However, if a completely soft experience is expected, hard components could distract from the experience of softness when squeezing. Other researchers have proposed soft conductive materials as strain/pressure sensors, such as conductive wool [6,16,27,37,38] and conductive foam [8,9,15,27,28,39,46]. One interesting characteristic of these material is that their resistance decreases when being pressed.…”

“…Researchers have explored the potential of soft interfaces in various domains, such as music instruments [2][3][4][5][6], breathing sensors [7], modeling tools [8][9][10][11], toys [12,13], controllers [11][12][13][14][15][16][17], mental health [18][19][20], communication [21,22], furniture [13,23], and robot skin [24]. These interfaces come in different sizes, ranging from finger interaction [14,15,25] to hand interaction [16,24,26] to whole body interactions [13,27]. With regard to sensing mechanisms, several novel sensing materials or new strategies for building soft sensors have been proposed [12,[28][29][30][31].…”

“…By contrast, to remove the rigid components from the compression part of the sensor, some studies utilized commercially available soft conductive materials to detect the deformation of the soft interface. Conductive polyurethane (PU) foam [8,9,15,27,36] and conductive wool [6,16,27,37,38] are two typical materials that have been used for this purpose.…”