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Fei Li¹, Run Hu²

¹School of Art, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China.

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Metamaterials enable advanced human-machine interfacing (HMI) by creating highly accurate sensors. This review details state-of-the-art sensing metamaterials for HMI applications utilizing light, heat, sound, and force signals.

Keywords:

human-machine interface metamaterials sensor

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Engineering
Computer Science

Background:

Modern life is increasingly reliant on machines, necessitating sophisticated human-machine interfacing (HMI) technologies.
Effective HMI requires machines to accurately sense ambient signals to respond to human commands.
Metamaterials offer a promising platform for developing high-accuracy sensing devices for diverse HMI applications.

Purpose of the Study:

To systematically review recent advancements in metamaterials for sensing applications in HMI.
To introduce the working principles of sensing metamaterials and their integration into HMI.
To explore the potential of metamaterials in enabling next-generation HMI systems.

Main Methods:

Review of state-of-the-art sensing metamaterials.
Analysis of HMI applications based on metamaterial sensors.
Discussion of progress in sensing light, heat, sound, and force signals.

Main Results:

Significant progress has been made in metamaterial-based sensing over the past decade.
Metamaterials demonstrate high accuracy for detecting various environmental signals crucial for HMI.
Specific applications leveraging metamaterials for light, heat, sound, and force sensing are highlighted.

Conclusions:

Metamaterials are pivotal for developing advanced sensing capabilities in HMI.
The review provides a comprehensive overview of current trends and future prospects in metamaterial-based HMI.
Further research into metamaterials will drive innovation in human-machine interaction.