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 ...

Remember that bizarre, inflatable touchscreen with buttons that crawled out of Carnegie Mellon University’s labs a few months back? Those same researchers—who can’t get enough of unorthodox input ...

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.