Name
Abstract | ||
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While physical prototyping and personal fabrication is currently getting increasingly popular, many of the tools used to design 3D objects are still complex and cumbersome to use. In this paper, we address this issue and present a novel tabletop-based tangible editor, called NatCut, that allows the quick and easy design of physical enclosures for interactive prototypes. To generate an enclosure with NatCut, the user first chooses a basic geometric shape for it on the tabletop surface. By simply placing electronic components on the displayed 2D layout for the enclosure, respective cut-outs and holes are generated. Further, a number of user interactions on the tabletop screen are supported to modify, personalize, and enrich the casing. The resulting 2D layout contains all joints needed to assemble the parts after laser cutting. We discuss the results of a user study in which we tested the approach. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2014 | 10.1145/2559206.2581189 | CHI Extended Abstracts |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
electronic component,tabletop screen,physical object fabrication,tabletop surface,interactive tangible editor,basic geometric shape,user study,physical prototyping,physical enclosure,user interaction,easy design,interactive prototype,enclosure | Physical prototyping,Enclosure,Casing,Computer science,Laser cutting,Human–computer interaction,Geometric shape,Electronic component,Multimedia,Fabrication | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
5 | 0.46 | 9 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stefan Schneegass | 1 | 506 | 60.71 |
| Alireza Sahami Shirazi | 2 | 728 | 42.82 |
| Tanja Döring | 3 | 191 | 22.03 |
| David Schmid | 4 | 5 | 0.46 |
| Albrecht Schmidt | 5 | 6495 | 696.81 |