Decoupling interaction hardware design using libraries of reusable electronics

Sankaran, Rajesh; Ullmer, Brygg; Ramanujam, J.; Kallakuri, Karun; Jandhyala, Srikanth; Toole, Cornelius; Laan, Christopher

doi:10.1145/1517664.1517732

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“…Kits and tools for design through making and crafting is an active research area in TEI/HCI [5,8,13,14,25,26]. Phidgets [5] is used to simplify development of physical interfaces through providing "everyday programmers" with a kit of premade electronic physical widgets.…”

Section: Kits and Tools For Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

WoodenHaptics

Forsslund

Yip

Sallnäs

2015

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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Spatial haptic interfaces have been around for 20 years. Yet, few affordable devices have been produced, and the design space in terms of physical workspace and haptic fidelity of devices that have been produced are limited and discrete. In this paper, an open-source, open-hardware module-based kit is presented that allows an interaction designer with little electro-mechanical experience to manufacture and assemble a fully working spatial haptic interface. It also allows for modification in shape and size as well as tuning of parameters to fit a particular task or application. Results from an evaluation showed that the haptic quality of the WoodenHaptics device was on par with a Phantom Desktop and that a novice could assemble it with guidance in a normal office space. This open source starting kit, uploaded free-to-download online, affords sketching in hardware; it "unsticks" the hardware from being a highly-specialized and esoteric craft to being an accessible and user-friendly technology, while maintaining the feel of high-fidelity haptics.

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Section: Kits and Tools For Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

WoodenHaptics

Forsslund

Yip

Sallnäs

2015

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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“…Other stackable prototyping systems include PC-104 (http://pc104.org/), a variety of wireless sensing and processing systems e.g. [2,10] and the BeagleBone (http://beagleboard.org/bone). Despite all these options, flexibility of construction is inherently limited with stackable systems.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring physical prototyping techniques for functional devices using .NET gadgeteer

Hodges

taylor

Villar

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

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In this paper we present a number of different physical construction techniques for prototyping functional electronic devices. Some of these approaches are already well established whilst others are more novel; our aim is to briefly summarize some of the main categories and to illustrate them with real examples. Whilst a number of different tools exist for building working device prototypes, for consistency the examples we present here are all built using the Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer platform. Although this naturally constrains the scope of this study, it also facilitates a basic comparison of the different techniques. Our ultimate aim is to enable others in the field to learn from our experiences and the techniques we present.

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“…Thus, an important topic is the decoupling of hardware and software components. This has, for example, been addressed by Sankaran et al [9] who presented "Blades and Tiles", a hardware toolkit for interaction researchers that offers means to integrate user-developed interaction modalities. Toolkits like "Blades and Tiles" realize a quite powerful tool for engineers, but also require at least some knowledge in wiring and programming.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design by physical composition for complex tangible user interfaces

Doering

Pfleging

Kray

et al. 2010

CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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In this paper, we present a novel approach to create devices with tangible user interfaces by physical composition. While the separation of the user interface from the application logic has a long tradition in software engineering, for products with tangible user interfaces there is no equivalent approach that realizes a true separation and flexible combination of interface components, underlying technology, and software parts. We propose a novel concept that is based on an inner Core for the basic technical and software platform of a product and an outer Shell that builds a flexible and exchangeable tangible user interface from passive components. Using vision-based tracking, we can realize a clear separation between the components. No wiring is necessary. This paper introduces our novel approach and presents a first working prototype as well as initial results from its application in a design workshop.

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Decoupling interaction hardware design using libraries of reusable electronics

Cited by 15 publications

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