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Abstract

Sharing and manipulating information are essential for collaborative work in meeting scenarios. Nowadays, people tend to bring their own devices as a result of increasing mobility possibilities. However, transferring data from one device to another can be cumbersome and tedious if restrictions like different platforms, form factors or environmental limitations apply.In this paper, we present two concepts to enrich interaction on and between devices through 3D printed customized tangibles: 1) Bring your own information, and 2) bring your own tools. For this, we enable interactivity for low-cost and passive tangible 3D printed objects by adding conductive material and make use of touch-enabled surfaces. Our system allows users to easily share digital contents across various devices and to manipulate them with individually designed tools without additional hardware required.

CAPath: 3D-Printed Interfaces with Conductive Points in Grid Layout to Extend Capacitive Touch Inputs

“…These methods have been used not only for tangible user interfaces (TUIs) but also for extending touch interactions such as providing buttons with physical click feedback or sliders [18,41]. This has also been used for data communication between multiple devices [8], automating touch inputs [12], and detecting changes in environmental conditions such as temperature [28]. However, these methods only detect whether a conductive contact point fixed at a particular position is grounded; thus, the possible interaction is still limited.…”

Accessible Multimodal Tool Support for Brainstorming Meetings

“…Tangibles provide a haptic experience and are able to map the content of individual items of the digital whiteboard to a physical surface and are distinguishable for BVIP by different shapes and tactile characteristics [14,18]. Further, they can maintain the position and clustering of the digital cards analogously.…”