Interactive touch cord with microinteractions

A computer-implemented method of managing input of user commands by hand gesture at a touch cord, the method comprising:

• obtaining, by one or more processors, touch data associated with the touch cord, the touch cord comprising a plurality of conductive sensing lines braided with a plurality of non-conductive lines, the plurality of conductive sensing lines enable reception of touch inputs that cause a change in capacitance to one or more of the plurality of conductive sensing lines, the touch inputs including continuous hand gesture inputs, discrete motion hand gesture inputs, and discrete grasp hand gesture inputs;
• processing, by the one or more processors, said touch data according to one or more machine-learned models to identify two or more hand gesture inputs selected from a group comprising the continuous hand gesture inputs, the discrete motion hand gesture inputs, and the discrete grasp hand gesture inputs;
• and
• operating, by the one or more processors, one or more electronic devices according to one or more user commands associated with the two or more hand gesture inputs.

One or more non-transitory computer readable media that collectively store instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• obtaining touch data associated with an interactive touch cord comprising a plurality of conductive sensing lines braided with a plurality of non-conductive lines, the plurality of conductive sensing lines enable reception of touch inputs that cause a change in capacitance to one or more of the plurality of conductive sensing lines, the touch inputs including continuous hand gesture inputs, discrete motion hand gesture inputs, and discrete grasp hand gesture inputs;
• processing said touch data according to one or more trained machine learned models to identify two or more hand gesture inputs selected from a group comprising said continuous hand gesture inputs, said discrete motion hand gesture inputs, and said discrete grasp hand gesture inputs;
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• operating one or more electronic devices according to one or more user commands associated with the two or more hand gesture inputs.