PS4's DualShock Controllers Could Have Sensed Your Sweaty Hands

In an interview with stuff.tv, PS4's lead architect Mark Cerny revealed that PS4 engineers trialled the sweat sensing (galvanic skin response) controllers. The idea was to determine how stressed the player is by measuring the amount of sweat on hands. The technique is similar to the technique used in lie-detectors. Cerny said that they had a long research project where they looked at almost every idea they could think of. The controller design team interacted with the game developers to know what they could use from the controller.


Unfortunately, the sweat/stress sensors didn't make it to the final version of the DualShock 4 controllers; it does feature a few cool things, like the touch-pad. The team decided to focus on the core gaming experience; mostly the first person shooters.

Cerny said that the modern controllers aren't optimised for first person shooting games. The team tested the throw of the triggers, their position, pressure these triggers can handle, the dead spot, convexity and concavity among several other things and the end result is 'extraordinarily natural'.

Cerny further mentioned that he hasn't heard a negative comment about the DualShock controllers yet. We'll find out more only on November 13th (hopefully).

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