SYSTEM FOR DETECTING INPUTS INTO A COMPUTING DEVICE

One variation of a system for detecting inputs into a computing device includes an elastic film: configured to install over a capacitive touch sensor including a rigid substrate; characterized by a dielectric constant greater than 3.0; defining a touch sensor surface across a nominal plane offset from the rigid substrate; configured to locally deform inwardly from the nominal plane toward the rigid substrate responsive to an input applied to the touch sensor surface; configured to reduce strength of an electric field projected by the capacitance touch sensor across the nominal plane; configured to decrease capacitance between local pairs of electrodes in the capacitive touch sensor as a function of local depression of the touch sensor surface toward the rigid substrate proximal the particular sense electrode; and configured to locally return the touch sensor surface to the nominal plane responsive to release of the local input from the touch sensor surface.