Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Everyday Objects
Why Hacker News recommends it
Brought up as an early example of context-aware touch sensing and as part of Disney Research's wider interaction prototypes.
What it is
Disney Research presents Touche, a swept frequency capacitive sensing technique that recognizes complex hand and body configurations, and adds touch sensitivity to humans, liquids and everyday objects.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2012 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Recommends smtddr · 2014-10 · on “Fluid Actuators from Disney Research Make Soft, Safe Robot Arms”
If you liked this, check out another project from Disney labs called "Touché" -- [this video] For some reason, the girl's reactions to the 2 bzzzt-wrong sounds @ 2:55 are hilarious.
Recommends jorvi · 2024-01 · on “Disney unveils the HoloTile floor”
Disney researches / develops some really cool stuff. Their Disney Research Hub channel is a goldmine. One of my favorites is Touché. The world becomes your touchscreen: [this video]
Cites Gigablah · 2012-08 · on “Show HN: A multi-touch document manipulation system”
The "false touch" problem is solvable: "Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing" [this video] Basically the idea is to make devices aware of the physical context of user interactions.
Cites jorvi · 2025-09 · on “Meta Ray-Ban Display”
Disney is about to have a serious talk with Facebook. Disney Research has had a prototype on gesture detection via wristband electric sensing tech since 2012 : [this video]