Jamming user interfaces: Programmable particle stiffness and sensing for malleable and shape-changing devices
Malleable and organic user interfaces have the potential to enable radically new forms of interactions and expressiveness through flexible, free-form and computationally controlled shapes and displays. This work, specifically focuses on particle jamming as a simple, effective method for flexible, sh...
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| author | Leithinger, Daniel Olwal, Alex Ishii, Hiroshi Follmer, Sean Weston Cheng, Nadia Gen San |
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| description | Malleable and organic user interfaces have the potential to enable radically new forms of interactions and expressiveness through flexible, free-form and computationally controlled shapes and displays. This work, specifically focuses on particle jamming as a simple, effective method for flexible, shape-changing user interfaces where programmatic control of material stiffness enables haptic feedback, deformation, tunable affordances and control gain. We introduce a compact, low-power pneumatic jamming system suitable for mobile devices, and a new hydraulic-based technique with fast, silent actuation and optical shape sensing. We enable jamming structures to sense input and function as interaction devices through two contributed methods for high-resolution shape sensing using: 1) index-matched particles and fluids, and 2) capacitive and electric field sensing. We explore the design space of malleable and organic user interfaces enabled by jamming through four motivational prototypes that highlight jamming's potential in HCI, including applications for tabletops, tablets and for portable shape-changing mobile devices. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/798522022-09-29T11:59:04Z Jamming user interfaces: Programmable particle stiffness and sensing for malleable and shape-changing devices Leithinger, Daniel Olwal, Alex Ishii, Hiroshi Follmer, Sean Weston Cheng, Nadia Gen San Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Follmer, Sean Weston Leithinger, Daniel Olwal, Alex Cheng, Nadia Gen San Ishii, Hiroshi Malleable and organic user interfaces have the potential to enable radically new forms of interactions and expressiveness through flexible, free-form and computationally controlled shapes and displays. This work, specifically focuses on particle jamming as a simple, effective method for flexible, shape-changing user interfaces where programmatic control of material stiffness enables haptic feedback, deformation, tunable affordances and control gain. We introduce a compact, low-power pneumatic jamming system suitable for mobile devices, and a new hydraulic-based technique with fast, silent actuation and optical shape sensing. We enable jamming structures to sense input and function as interaction devices through two contributed methods for high-resolution shape sensing using: 1) index-matched particles and fluids, and 2) capacitive and electric field sensing. We explore the design space of malleable and organic user interfaces enabled by jamming through four motivational prototypes that highlight jamming's potential in HCI, including applications for tabletops, tablets and for portable shape-changing mobile devices. National Science Foundation (U.S.). Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Grant 1122374) 2013-08-14T13:57:23Z 2013-08-14T13:57:23Z 2012-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 9781450315807 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79852 Sean Follmer, Daniel Leithinger, Alex Olwal, Nadia Cheng, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2012. Jamming user interfaces: programmable particle stiffness and sensing for malleable and shape-changing devices. In Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '12). https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3407-8722 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4918-8908 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2380116.2380181 Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology - UIST '12 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) MIT Web Domain |
| spellingShingle | Leithinger, Daniel Olwal, Alex Ishii, Hiroshi Follmer, Sean Weston Cheng, Nadia Gen San Jamming user interfaces: Programmable particle stiffness and sensing for malleable and shape-changing devices |
| title | Jamming user interfaces: Programmable particle stiffness and sensing for malleable and shape-changing devices |
| title_full | Jamming user interfaces: Programmable particle stiffness and sensing for malleable and shape-changing devices |
| title_fullStr | Jamming user interfaces: Programmable particle stiffness and sensing for malleable and shape-changing devices |
| title_full_unstemmed | Jamming user interfaces: Programmable particle stiffness and sensing for malleable and shape-changing devices |
| title_short | Jamming user interfaces: Programmable particle stiffness and sensing for malleable and shape-changing devices |
| title_sort | jamming user interfaces programmable particle stiffness and sensing for malleable and shape changing devices |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79852 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3407-8722 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4918-8908 |
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