Sensor System Simulates Body Pressure
Sensor Products has donated its Tactilus body mapping pressure system to The Leonardo Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah, for an exhibition that involves simulating pressure points. The 'Under Pressure' exhibit is being shown at schools and libraries until the museum opens next year. It demonstrates how pressure between the body and a contacting object - such as a chair - can create pressure points and strain. Joe Andrade, the exhibit developer and a professor of bio-engineering at the University of Utah, integrated it into a portable kiosk that teaches children and adults about surface-pressure body mapping. In pressure body mapping, sensors collect data from the force exerted by the human body as it touches another surface. This data is then converted into colour-coded body maps that correspond to different degrees of pressure. Using this knowledge, designers and engineers modify products to produce more even distributions of pressure on the human body. By taking the load off ar...