Touch-Driven Interaction between Physical Space and Cyberspace with NFC

Nowadays, natural and intuitive interactions between physical space and cyberspace have become increasingly important in our daily life. In this paper, we propose touch-driven interaction, which translates touch action into information flow in cyberspace, and result in media activity in physical space. Using NFC technology, user can simply touch smart phone with NFC tags to interact with TV, stereo, digital frame, etc. Compared with recognition-based interactions, touch-driven interaction features full user controllability, fine-grain accuracy and high usability. We also present several applications, including Touch&Connect, Touch&Watch, Touch&Listen and Touch&MakeFriends, to demonstrate touch-driven interaction, and conclude that such interaction is both intuitive and convenient in daily life.