SkinMarks

Multi-Touch Kit

“…Touch is a mature input technology popularized earlier with screen-based devices [4], evolving since then into diverse application areas and scales, such as interactive spaces [7,42], objects [32,28] and on-body interfaces [16,14,27,37,38]. Research has also demonstrated a versatile spectrum of methods to fabricate custom touch sensors.…”

“…Research has also demonstrated a versatile spectrum of methods to fabricate custom touch sensors. These comprise crafting with conductive copper and gold leafs [21], silicone casting [37], inkjet printing [22], screen printing [27,38] and 3D printing [34].…”

Soft Inkjet Circuits

“…By taking advantage of the wide range of thermally cured inks and compatibility with viscous pastes, a wide range of devices can be printed. Applications include printed displays [26,38,61], interactive paper [25,37], actuation [37], and electronic tattoos [30,35,60]. Another very versatile alternative is silicone casting, which allows for creating transparent, highly stretchable [34,61] devices, while being thin and conformal [59] and optionally containing internal channels for conductive liquids [34] or pressurized fluids [8,65].…”

I/O Braid

“…Pinstripe [8] utilizes conductive thread to create 1D textile interfaces that are manipulated by pinching the fabric. SkinMarks [35] and iSkin [34] are 1D compliant skin-worn sensors for touch input. Flexible touch matrices have been created through multi-layer resistive fabric [11,19,25], pressure-sensitive textile optical fibers [22], plastic film over sensing electrodes [21], a piezoresistive elastomer-based soft sensor using electrical impedance tomography [39], embroidery [6,17,40], fabric screen-printing [41]; metal foils [12], and weaving of conductive thread [14,18].…”