
Presented at UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) www.acm.org PAPER 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. AUTHORS: Paul H. Dietz, Benjamin Eidelson, Jonathan Westhues and Steven Bathiche The Applied Sciences Group, Microsoft Corporation LINK TO PUBLICATION: doi.acm.org ACM COPYRIGHT NOTICE. Copyright © 2009 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from Publications Dept., ACM, Inc., fax +1 (212) 869-0481, or permissions@acm.org.
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