ALTo: Ad Hoc High-Accuracy Touch Interaction Using Acoustic Localization

08/15/2021
by   Arvind Seshan, et al.
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Millions of people around the world face motor impairments due to Parkinson's, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy and other physical disabilities. The goal of this project is to increase the usable surface-area of devices for users with these disabilities by creating a simple, inexpensive, and portable way to enable high accuracy touch interaction with large surfaces such as a table or even a wall. This project uses a novel approach that analyzes the acoustic signals at four piezoelectric microphones placed on the interactive surface to identify sounds related to the same event (e.g., a finger tap) at each of the microphones. ALTo (Acoustic Localized Touch) uses the results of this signal processing to compute the time difference of arrival (TDOA) across the microphones. The collected TDOA data is used to compute an approximate location of a sound source (e.g., a finger tap) using a collection of hyperbolic equations. An experimental evaluation of a system prototype was used to identify a number of software and signal processing optimizations needed to significantly improve accuracy and create a usable system. The results of the research indicate that it is possible to detect the location of a touch with high accuracy. The ALTo prototype achieves an accuracy of 1.45cm in the x-direction and 2.72cm the y-direction which is within the range for the target usage (i.e., those with motor impairments).

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