CapStones and ZebraWidgets: sensing stacks of building blocks, dials and sliders on capacitive touch screens

L Chan, S Müller, A Roudaut, P Baudisch - Proceedings of the SIGCHI …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Recent research proposes augmenting capacitive touch pads with tangible objects,
enabling a new generation of mobile applications enhanced with tangible objects, such as …

roBlocks: a robotic construction kit for mathematics and science education

E Schweikardt, MD Gross - … of the 8th international conference on …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
We describe work in progress on roBlocks, a computational construction kit that encourages
users to experiment and play with a collection of sensor, logic and actuator blocks, exposing …

Sensortape: Modular and programmable 3d-aware dense sensor network on a tape

A Dementyev, HL Kao, JA Paradiso - Proceedings of the 28th Annual …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
SensorTape is a modular and dense sensor network in a form factor of a tape. SensorTape
is composed of interconnected and programmable sensor nodes on a flexible electronics …

VoxelHap: A toolkit for constructing proxies providing tactile and kinesthetic haptic feedback in virtual reality

M Feick, C Biyikli, K Gani, A Wittig, A Tang… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Experiencing virtual environments is often limited to abstract interactions with objects.
Physical proxies allow users to feel virtual objects, but are often inaccessible. We present …

ChainFORM: a linear integrated modular hardware system for shape changing interfaces

K Nakagaki, A Dementyev, S Follmer… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents ChainFORM: a linear, modular, actuated hardware system as a novel
type of shape changing interface. Using rich sensing and actuation capability, this modular …

Bricks, blocks, boxes, cubes, and dice: on the role of cubic shapes for the design of tangible interactive devices

K Lefeuvre, S Totzauer, M Storz, A Kurze… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Cubic shapes play an astonishing role in the design of tangible interactive devices. Due to
our curiosity for this widespread design preference lasting over thirty years, we constituted a …

ReForm: integrating physical and digital design through bidirectional fabrication

C Weichel, J Hardy, J Alexander… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Digital fabrication machines such as 3D printers and laser-cutters allow users to produce
physical objects based on virtual models. The creation process is currently unidirectional …

AudioCubes: a distributed cube tangible interface based on interaction range for sound design

B Schiettecatte, J Vanderdonckt - … of the 2nd international conference on …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
AudioCubes is a novel tangible user interface allowing any person interested by sound
design such as sound creators, and music trainers to intuitively explore and create …

Virtualbricks: Exploring a scalable, modular toolkit for enabling physical manipulation in vr

J Arora, A Saini, N Mehra, V Jain, S Shrey… - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Often Virtual Reality (VR) experiences are limited by the design of standard controllers. This
work aims to liberate a VR developer from these limitations in the physical realm to provide …

Reconfigurable tangible devices for 3D virtual object manipulation by single or multiple users

L Aguerreche, T Duval, A Lécuyer - … of the 17th ACM Symposium on …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we introduce the concept of a Reconfigurable Tangible Device for manipulation
of 3D objects in virtual environments by single or multiple users. This Reconfigurable …