A glove for rubbing and touch gestures

This paper describes the design and preliminary evaluation of a glove with individual sensors covering the tips of the thumb, third, and fourth fingers, plus grids of smaller sensors lining the palmar sides of the first and second fingers. The glove senses two types of gestures: rubbing the thumb against the first two fingers, and tapping the thumb on the tip of any of the four fingers, alone or simultaneously in different combinations. The glove occupies a novel point in the space of input devices, supporting low-resolution spatial input in one or two dimensions by rubbing, for discrete input by finger tapping, and for discrete input by single-stroke directional rubbing.