Flexible Human-Interactive Sensing and Synaptic Displays

Human-interactive technologies play a crucial role in this intelligent IoT, requiring high-performance sensors and displays with memory function for storing the detected information. Electrical sensors detect diverse human physiological and environmental changes using variations in electric signals, and these data are often delivered to a display physically connected with the sensor via a microprocessor, facilitating human/machine interface technologies. In this regard, the development of an innovative one-integrated platform with optimized architectures where a sensor and a display are converged is essential to achieve highly efficient and fast information management with low power consumption. Such integrated human-interactive sensing displays (HISDs) can electrically detect external stimuli with simultaneous optical visualization. In this presentation, a variety of device architectures and materials designs are presented for high performance HISDs. Guideline for future developments of HISDs is given, including molecular-level materials and emerging combination of HISDs with artificial intelligence, and novel sensing displays suitable for sensing and visualization of human-extrasensory information. The presentation also mentions an emerging tactile visual synapse that combines the functionality of tactile artificial synapses with the ability to visualize their activity in real time and provides a direct and intuitive visualization of the activity of artificial synapses, offering an efficient route for monitoring motion-related occupational therapy.