SPARSH: passing data using the body as a medium

Authors:
Pranav Mistry;Suranga Nanayakkara;Pattie Maes
Affiliations:
MIT Media Laboratory, CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA;MIT Media Laboratory, CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA;MIT Media Laboratory, CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Year:
2011

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Abstract

SPARSH explores a novel interaction method to seamlessly transfer data among multiple users and devices in a fun and intuitive way. The user touches a data item they wish to copy from a device, conceptually saving in the user's body. Next, the user touches the other device they want to paste/pass the saved content. SPARSH uses touch-based interactions as indications for what to copy and where to pass it. Technically, the actual transfer of media happens via the information cloud.