New Smartwatch Projects Skin Buttons, For some people, letting go of hardware buttons in smartphones and wearables is pretty difficult. The one’s who don’t think touchscreens are that appealing should give laser skin buttons a try. Carnegie Mellon University's Future Interfaces Group is exploring wearable technologies to make information and communication even more accessible.
The Carnegie Mellon researchers want to make a smartwatch bigger, without actually increasing its size. “How you create a watch bigger without making dimensions it bigger?” asks Laput Gierad, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University's Future Interfaces Group. The team calls these buttons “Skin Buttons” and they can project them by embedding four laser diodes in the smartwatch with Using infrared proximity sensors, the watch is able to tell when the user touches an icon; that information is communicated to the watch and the device reacts as though you touched the screen directly.
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Robert Xiao & Chris Harrison
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What if there was a way to project buttons on the skin, and this way assign their functions depending on the app that’s currently running? It’s possible to display any button with any functionality, supposing that everything is linked to the smartwatch’s software. There’s plenty of room for improvement, and the researchers who developed skin buttons are well aware of that. I think that skin buttons could become particularly useful for games on smartwatches and other wearables and While the Skin Buttons created for the smartwatch are just prototypes, the Future Interfaces Group plans to create similar user interfaces that will actually connect you to bigger devices and in time, might make screens obsolete altogether.
You can navigate through apps, using the skin buttons as arrows to scroll up down and over. “If you put a button on your skin, you expect people to be like, “What the,mad as a hatter !” chris Harrison says (HCII, Carnegie Mellon University).
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