Sensing GamePad: electrostatic potential sensing for enhancing entertainment oriented interactions

ABSTRACT

This paper introduces a novel way to enhance input devices to sense a user's foot motion. By measuring the electrostatic potential of a user, this device can sense the user's footsteps and jumps without requiring any external sensors such as a floor mat or sensors embedded in shoes. We apply this sensing principle to the gamepad to explore a new class of game interactions that combine the player's physical motion with gamepad manipulations. We also discuss other possible in-put devices that can be enhanced by the proposed sensing architecture such as a portable music player that can sense foot motion through the headphone and musical instruments that can be affected by the players' motion.

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
electrostatic, game input devices, input devices, physical interaction, sensing