Developing Flexible Conformable Multi-Touch Sensors for Affective Haptics Applications

Flexible, conformable, and stretchable multi-touch sensors that can sense hover, touch, and pressure can be employed for various applications not limited to wearables (medical, sports, recreation), robotics (affective robotics, full-body sensing, gripper), and prosthetics (artificial skin, gloves). Sensors exhibiting these properties are still in the early phase of development and not commercially available. Current off-the-shelf touch sensors do not offer much customization to researchers and maker communities for developing sensor-based interactions. In this cross-disciplinary collaboration project with Molecular Mechatronics Lab in Electrical Engineering, we are fabricating, testing, evaluating easily customizable soft multi-touch pressure/shear sensors.

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