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Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology archive
Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology table of contents

Victoria, BC, Canada

SESSION: Hold me, squeeze me table of contents

Pages 55-58

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-745-5

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Paul H. Dietz	Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA
Benjamin Eidelson	Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA
Jonathan Westhues	Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA
Steven Bathiche	Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

A pressure sensitive computer keyboard is presented that independently senses the force level on every depressed key. The design leverages existing membrane technologies and is suitable for low-cost, high-volume manufacturing. A number of representative applications are discussed.

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