Thad E. Starner

Serpentine: A Self-Powered Reversibly Deformable Cord Sensor for Human Input

We introduce Serpentine, a self-powered sensor that is a reversibly deformable cord capable of sensing a variety of human input. The material properties and structural design of Serpentine allow it to be flexible, twistable, stretchable and squeezable, enabling a broad variety of expressive input modalities. The senso…