The sound of a fingernail raking across a table or a board may be enough to drive most people crazy. But get past that annoyance and it could become a way to answer your phone, silence a call or turn ...

Scratch input allows us to use solid surfaces as an input devices by capturing the sounds they produce. Using a stethoscope and a high pass filter, they capture the unique sounds of specific gestures.

Normally, “scratch” and “cell phone” are words I do not want to hear in the same sentence, but thanks to a team of student researchers at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon ...

We first got interested with Chris Harrison because of his deformable touch screen technology. The guy's just a graduate student and he's making some pretty amazing gadgets. However, we should point ...

Scratch input allows us to use solid surfaces as an input devices by capturing the sounds they produce. Using a stethoscope and a high pass filter, they capture the unique sounds of specific gestures.