BodyRC: Exploring Interaction Modalities Using Human Body as Lossy Signal Transmission Medium
- 1 December 2014
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 IEEE 11th Intl Conf on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing and 2014 IEEE 11th Intl Conf on Autonomic and Trusted Computing and 2014 IEEE 14th Intl Conf on Scalable Computing and Communications and Its Associated Workshops
Abstract
With the increasing popularity of wearable computing devices, new sensing techniques that enable always-available interaction are highly demanded. In this paper, we propose Body RC, a novel body-based device using human body as lossy signal transmission medium. This device supports on-body interaction and body gesture recognition. In particular, Body RC recognizes the operations of on-body interaction and body gestures by analyzing the electrical properties when transmitting single high frequency analog signal through human body. We evaluate the capabilities and performance of Body RC through two controlled experiments showing robust classification of both on-body interaction and body gesture recognition. In addition, we design a real-time recognition system demonstrating the utility of our technique.Keywords
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