Touch-sensitive wall might let you control home devices in the future

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research Pittsburgh think we can do more with our walls. In a research paper theyre presenting this week at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, they present a way to turn all of the static walls that do little more than separate spaces into sensing, interactive, smart pieces of infrastructure. The result of their work is a prototype of Wall++, a wall that can track touch and gestures, sense nearby bodies a….
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