Smatable: A Vibration-Based Sensing Method for Making Ordinary Tables Touch-Interfaces

In recent years, the equipment that makes up smart homes is required not only to be functional, but also to be integrated with the design and aesthetics of the living space. Among them, interfaces that directly touch the human eye and hands are the key to maintaining design, but there were many issu...

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Main Authors: Makoto Yoshida, Tomokazu Matsui, Tokimune Ishiyama, Manato Fujimoto, Hirohiko Suwa, Keiichi Yasumoto
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Published: IEEE 2023-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10360828/
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author Makoto Yoshida
Tomokazu Matsui
Tokimune Ishiyama
Manato Fujimoto
Hirohiko Suwa
Keiichi Yasumoto
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Tokimune Ishiyama
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Hirohiko Suwa
Keiichi Yasumoto
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description In recent years, the equipment that makes up smart homes is required not only to be functional, but also to be integrated with the design and aesthetics of the living space. Among them, interfaces that directly touch the human eye and hands are the key to maintaining design, but there were many issues in terms of integration with design and aesthetics of living spaces. In this paper, we propose an interface system that operates existing furniture by touching it as a new interface that integrates beautifully into the living space. The proposed system detects user operations with four small vibration sensors attached to hidden locations of existing furniture and uses deep learning to learn the vibrations when a person touches the furniture. Using this method, thick materials difficult to achieve with normal capacitive touch sensors can be utilized. In the experiment, a dining table was used as a representative piece of furniture, and the accuracy of detecting the direction in which three participants swiped in four directions on the table was verified. As a result of the experiment, the accuracy was confirmed by Leave-One-Person-Out-Cross-Validation using 3 sessions of swipe data for each individual for 3 participants, and the accuracy was 0.67. Furthermore, we verified the accuracy of a trained model created by adding only one session of evaluation target data to each learning dataset used in the Leave-One-Person-Out-Cross-Validation. As a result, the accuracy reached 0.90, achieving practical precision.
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spelling doaj.art-b2caf94f8b784029bf5c99e8076319902023-12-26T00:07:41ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-011114261114262710.1109/ACCESS.2023.334350010360828Smatable: A Vibration-Based Sensing Method for Making Ordinary Tables Touch-InterfacesMakoto Yoshida0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3332-7080Tomokazu Matsui1Tokimune Ishiyama2Manato Fujimoto3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6171-5697Hirohiko Suwa4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8519-3352Keiichi Yasumoto5https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1579-3237Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, JapanGraduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, JapanGraduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, JapanGraduate School of Informatics, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, JapanGraduate School of Informatics, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, JapanGraduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, JapanIn recent years, the equipment that makes up smart homes is required not only to be functional, but also to be integrated with the design and aesthetics of the living space. Among them, interfaces that directly touch the human eye and hands are the key to maintaining design, but there were many issues in terms of integration with design and aesthetics of living spaces. In this paper, we propose an interface system that operates existing furniture by touching it as a new interface that integrates beautifully into the living space. The proposed system detects user operations with four small vibration sensors attached to hidden locations of existing furniture and uses deep learning to learn the vibrations when a person touches the furniture. Using this method, thick materials difficult to achieve with normal capacitive touch sensors can be utilized. In the experiment, a dining table was used as a representative piece of furniture, and the accuracy of detecting the direction in which three participants swiped in four directions on the table was verified. As a result of the experiment, the accuracy was confirmed by Leave-One-Person-Out-Cross-Validation using 3 sessions of swipe data for each individual for 3 participants, and the accuracy was 0.67. Furthermore, we verified the accuracy of a trained model created by adding only one session of evaluation target data to each learning dataset used in the Leave-One-Person-Out-Cross-Validation. As a result, the accuracy reached 0.90, achieving practical precision.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10360828/Touch interfaceoperation recognitionvibration sensordeep learning
spellingShingle Makoto Yoshida
Tomokazu Matsui
Tokimune Ishiyama
Manato Fujimoto
Hirohiko Suwa
Keiichi Yasumoto
Smatable: A Vibration-Based Sensing Method for Making Ordinary Tables Touch-Interfaces
IEEE Access
Touch interface
operation recognition
vibration sensor
deep learning
title Smatable: A Vibration-Based Sensing Method for Making Ordinary Tables Touch-Interfaces
title_full Smatable: A Vibration-Based Sensing Method for Making Ordinary Tables Touch-Interfaces
title_fullStr Smatable: A Vibration-Based Sensing Method for Making Ordinary Tables Touch-Interfaces
title_full_unstemmed Smatable: A Vibration-Based Sensing Method for Making Ordinary Tables Touch-Interfaces
title_short Smatable: A Vibration-Based Sensing Method for Making Ordinary Tables Touch-Interfaces
title_sort smatable a vibration based sensing method for making ordinary tables touch interfaces
topic Touch interface
operation recognition
vibration sensor
deep learning
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10360828/
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