A practical pressure sensitive computer keyboard

  • Authors:
  • Paul H. Dietz;Benjamin Eidelson;Jonathan Westhues;Steven Bathiche

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA;Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA;Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA;Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A pressure sensitive computer keyboard is presented that independently senses the force level on every depressed key. The design leverages existing membrane technologies and is suitable for low-cost, high-volume manufacturing. A number of representative applications are discussed.