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Fig. 6.10
Appearance of batheremin
Fig. 6.11
Appearance of
bathcount
6.3.3
TubTouch Concluding Remarks
In this section, the TubTouch bathroom system was described. This system en-
ables a bathtub to become an interactive controller using embedded capacitive touch
sensors, and a number of new entertainment applications associated with it. The
TubTouch system and these applications have been exhibited and demonstrated at
several exhibitions and conferences, for instance, at Makers Faire Tokyo 2012 and
IPSJ Interaction 2012. The general feedback from people who experimented with the
applications has been very positive; they usually state a desire to have the TubTouch
system and its applications in their own homes.
We plan to develop middleware for TubTouch, using the TUIO protocol
(Kaltenbrunner
2009
) to divide it into hardware and software platforms, in order
to make applications easier to develop.
