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37 Human-machine interface (HMI) enabled by epidermal electronics system (EES)
 Nithin Reddy
Ohjin Kwon
Woo Sik Lee
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Our goal of this project is to design an epidermal electronics system (EES) and its application for human-machine interface.

Owing to micro/nanotechnology development, there are many types of motion sensors such as Nintendo Wii game controller. However, users still need to hold the controller on hand in order to control it.
Here, I wish to address this issue by directly mounting the electronic system onto skin epidermis, such that human motions can be directly translated into a controlling system. The one of the main point of epidermal device is that this device will follow the skin motion so that it guarantees formal skin contact. Therefore, it will reduce motional defects.

This project will be separate into three parts: epidermal EMG Sensor, Signal Conditioning Unit, and programming.

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