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Using the human body as a wire-like communication channel. [Research Saturday]

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Technology, Daily News, News, Tech News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Guest Dr. Shreyas Sen, a Perdue University associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, joins us to discuss the following scenario:. Instead of inserting a card or scanning a smartphone to make a payment, what if you could simply touch the machine with your finger? A prototype developed by Purdue University engineers would essentially let your body act as the link between your card or smartphone and the reader or scanner, making it possible for you to transmit information just by touching a surface. The research can be found here: Tech makes it possible to digitally communicate through human touch (press release) BodyWire-HCI: Enabling New Interaction Modalities by Communicating Strictly During Touch Using Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication (research paper) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Search your first call to discover how SRM can help your business. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's research Saturday.

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I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts

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tracking down threats and vulnerabilities, solving some of the hard problems of protecting ourselves in a rapidly

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evolving cyberspace.

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Thanks for joining us.

1:38.3

Do you already have this common conductive medium that is the body itself.

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Why can we not use the body as a wear so that we get the orders of magnitude more efficiency and physical security for devices communicating around the body.

1:58.5

That's Dr. Shreus Sen. He's an associate professor at Purdue University.

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The research we're discussing today is titled

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Enabling new interaction modalities by communicating strictly through touch

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using electroquasistatic human body communication. You can sense to glory.

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