Title
Kinetic Blocks: Actuated Constructive Assembly for Interaction and Display
Abstract
Pin-based shape displays not only give physical form to digital information, they have the inherent ability to accurately move and manipulate objects placed on top of them. In this paper we focus on such object manipulation: we present ideas and techniques that use the underlying shape change to give kinetic ability to otherwise inanimate objects. First, we describe the shape display's ability to assemble, disassemble, and reassemble structures from simple passive building blocks through stacking, scaffolding, and catapulting. A technical evaluation demonstrates the reliability of the presented techniques. Second, we introduce special kinematic blocks that are actuated and sensed through the underlying pins. These blocks translate vertical pin movements into other degrees of freedom like rotation or horizontal movement. This interplay of the shape display with objects on its surface allows us to render otherwise inaccessible forms, like overhangs, and enables richer input and output.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2807442.2807453
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
Shape-Changing User Interfaces, Shape Displays, Actuated Tangible Interfaces
Computer vision,Kinematics,Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Shape display,Constructive,Technical evaluation,Input/output,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Shape change,Stacking
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.43
24
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Philipp Schoessler1321.84
Daniel Windham280.43
Daniel Leithinger351131.03
Sean Follmer485356.83
Hiroshi Ishii5124.79