In the past ten years or so, we seem to be used to sliding and clicking on touch screen phones. From the earliest 2000 CompaqiPaq (Compaq iPaq), it has laid the foundation for touch screen sliding and click operations. However, to completely change the way of human-computer interaction, Steve had to be from seven years ago. Steve Jobs showed us the first generation of iPhone devices. Although all kinds of smartphones have undergone earth-shaking changes and various improvements and improvements, it has never been possible to change the original interactive language of Joe Gang.
A startup company called Qeexo has provided us with a new way of interaction. The standard accelerometer in mobile devices is used to sense the different vibration patterns generated when different parts of the finger touch the screen, so that the fingertips, knuckles, Different operations such as fingernails can complete different operations. In this way, the operation tasks that currently require several steps to complete can be reduced to one step to complete directly.
The FingerSense technology developed by Qeexo can accurately distinguish different touch vibration frequencies such as fingertips, fingernails, knuckles, and stylus pens, thereby expanding the interaction mode between people and smart mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. For example, if the user clicks and slides on the knuckle character screen, the device can directly perform text selection operations, just like using a mouse. Thereby changing a series of cumbersome operation modes such as clicking, long pressing, and selecting.
Qeexo co-founder and CEO SangWonLee described his technology like this: In this way, just like the different buttons on your fingers, you need to directly click on the button to do what kind of operation. At present, the project has raised 2.3 million US dollars (about 14.3 million yuan) of funds.
The significance of the new control method
Although at the present stage, touch screens based on capacitive and resistive screens are the mainstream trend in the market, but in some ways their technology is already old.
This revolutionary technology was first developed by two other co-founders, Chris. Harrison (Chris Harrison) and Julia. Developed by Julia Schwarz, the two were studying for a doctorate at the School of Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. At the beginning of the project development, they tried to find a new solution to solve the problem of multi-touch on the touch screen.
As mentioned earlier, the FingerSense technology developed by Qeexo uses a specific accelerometer, which can recognize different vibration patterns generated by different parts of the finger, so as to be able to perform various operations. For example, when the user's fingertip touches the screen, the accelerometer can recognize a certain vibration frequency. When the finger joint is operated, the vibration frequency recognized by the accelerometer is another.
Once this technology is applied to mobile smart devices, users can perform various operations like bringing their own mouse. However, such an operation is slightly different from the left-click and right-click operations on the computer interface. In FingerSense technology, the click and slide operations of different parts of the finger have different control meanings. For example, the click of the knuckle can control the page turning of the text document, and the sliding of the fingertip may be a delete operation.
A wider range of applications
Qeexo co-founder and CEO SangWonLee said: If this technology can be successfully launched on the market, not only in the field of smart mobile devices, but also in other related fields, such as in-car touch screen control. If this brand-new technology can be applied to the car touch screen, then the driver only needs a simple action to complete the problem that now requires multiple steps to solve. In this way, the driving safety of the driver during the operation of the touch screen is greatly improved.
Or in the operation of smart watches, users use different finger parts to perform screen operations, they can directly perform an operation, which greatly simplifies the operation of smart watches at this stage. In addition, the company currently has a FingerSenseonBody technology at the conceptual stage, which aims to simplify the operation of wearable devices with small screens, allowing people to control by clicking on their arms or hands.
Although the technical level of this project called FingerSense has been well resolved at this stage, this does not mean that this technology can be successfully used in the field of smart mobile devices in the future. What needs to be done at this stage is to be able to persuade major mainstream equipment manufacturers led by Samsung and Apple to adopt this technology at the same time. And also need to persuade these manufacturers big brothers to unify the operation mode on their equipment. In other words, the control method on Samsung devices should be consistent with that on Apple devices.
For those of us who are smart mobile devices, all we can do now is to wait quietly. Hope that one day, a new and more convenient control method will appear. Just like the touch operation replaced the keyboard operation for the first time more than ten years ago, it brought us more surprises and benefits.
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