Lighting Control using Pressure-Sensitive Touchpads

TL;DR

This paper presents a new lighting control method using pressure-sensitive touchpads, subdividing the surface into virtual sliders for color intensity adjustment, offering advantages over traditional mechanical sliders.

Contribution

It introduces a novel pressure-sensitive touchpad interface for lighting control, modeled after mechanical sliders, with benefits over existing control devices.

Findings

Effective virtual sliders for color control

Enhanced user interaction compared to mechanical sliders

Potential for more versatile lighting interfaces

Abstract

We introduce a novel approach to control physical lighting parameters by means of a pressure-sensitive touchpad. The two-dimensional area of the touchpad is subdivided into 5 virtual sliders, each controlling the intensity of a color (red, green, blue, yellow, and white). The physical interaction methodology is modeled directly after ubiquitous mechanical sliders and dimmers which tend to be used for intensity/volume control. Our abstraction to a pressure-sensitive touchpad provides advantages and introduces additional benefits over such existing devices.