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Engineering Brief

Integration of Touch Pressure and Position Sensing with Speaker Diaphragms

Authors: Freed, Adrian

AES Convention 133 · Paper 73 · October 2012

Abstract

Speaker cones and other driver diaphragms are usually too fragile to be good sites for touch interaction. This can be solved by employing new, lightweight piezoresistive e-textiles with flat, rectangular, stiff surfaces used in full-range drivers from HiWave. Good low-frequency performance of piezoresistive fabric has an advantage over piezoelectric sensing for this situation. Applications of these integrated sensor/actuators include haptic feedback user interfaces and responsive electronic percussion instruments.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 133
AES Convention
133
Paper number
73
Publication date
October 6, 2012
Affiliation
University of California, Berkeley (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Engineering Brief