forschung:projekte:fingernail_display

Fingernail Displays

What happens if we put small displays on fingernails?

Type:
Research
Topic:
Fingernail Displays
Researcher:
Raphael Wimmer, Florian Echtler
Status:
planning
Keywords:
fingernail, touch, displays
started:
2012-08-01

This wiki page documents ongoing research. Sometimes it does not.

Prototype functional, working on code. CHI WiP poster presented at CHI.

  • put figures on openclipart.org

Git Repository (private at the moment): https://gitlab.raphael.cc/fingernail_displays

E-Ink segmented displays: http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?FV=ffec8d22

OLED module: http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/ISC01P/360-2342-ND/2039169

Another OLED module: http://www.glyn.de/Produkte/Displays/OLED-Displays?q=M00931_VGM064032A0W02

HUD OLED display - expensive (400 USD) and extremely high resolution (~1800 dpi): http://olightek.en.alibaba.com/product/476349700-210642598/0_6inch_SVGA_800_600_OLED.html

„Index finger better for pointing than thumb“, according to:
Wobbrock, J.O., Myers, B.A., and Aung, H.H. The performance of hand postures in front- and back-of-device interaction for mobile computing. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 66, 12 (2008), 857-875.

04.05.2013 German national radio station Deutschlandfunk reports on our research presented at CHI: http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/computer/2096779/

01.05.2013 Poster presentation at CHI.

10.02.2013 Our WiP was accepted. Along with the one from Taiwan and a workshop paper on the same topic by Jürgen Steimle et al., there will now be 3 (!) presentations on fingernail displays at CHI 2013. Obviously, a topic whose time has come.

22.01.2013 Apparently, researchers at National Taiwan University had the same idea and got their paper "NailDisplay: Bringing an Always-Available Visual Display To Fingertips" accepted as a note for CHI 2013. They also suggest using a fingernail display for mitigating the fat thumb problem. No real evaluation conducted :(.

09.01.2013 Submitted paper for CHI2013 WIP, presenting the concept and discussing research directions.

04.01.2013 Working on draft for CHI 2013 WIP.

03.01.2013 Soldered new connector for OLED.