Digital Mechanical Metamaterials

Ion, Alexandra; Wall, Ludwig; Kovács, Róbert; Baudisch, Patrick

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025624

Cited by 97 publications

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“…For the design of hybrid remote interactions, we argue to go a step further and try to integrate the "computation" into the physical materials themselves (e.g., in the direction of computational meta-materials that integrate computational functionality embedded in the very physical material itself, beyond embedded electronics [76,77]). In that regard, Mora et al [23] provided a thorough argument to go beyond the design of interactive surfaces but focus on the design of interactive game pieces in hybrid boardgames.…”

Section: Tracking Technology To Enable Bodily Signals-designing For Nmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dislocated Boardgames: Design Potentials for Remote Tangible Play

Maurer

Fuchsberger

2019

MTI

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Conventional digital and remote forms of play lack the physicality associated with analog play. Research on the materiality of boardgames has highlighted the inherent material aspects to this analog form of play and how these are relevant for the design of digital play. In this work, we analyze the inherent material qualities and related experiences of boardgames, and speculate how these might shift in remote manifestations. Based on that, we depict three lenses of designing for remote tangible play: physicality, agency, and time. These lenses present leverage points for future designs and illustrate how the digital and the physical can complement each other following alternative notions of hybrid digital–physical play. Based on that, we illustrate the related design space and discuss how boardgame qualities can be translated to the remote space, as well as how their characteristics might change. Thereby, we shed light on related design challenges and reflect on how designing for shared physicality can enrich dislocated play by applying these lenses.

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Section: Tracking Technology To Enable Bodily Signals-designing For Nmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dislocated Boardgames: Design Potentials for Remote Tangible Play

Maurer

Fuchsberger

2019

MTI

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“…Mechanical computers have potential applications at the meso-, micro-, and nano-scales. Applications at the meso-to micro-scale include such disparate areas as soft robotics [16,33] and failsafe devices resistant to radiation and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) [34]. Mechanical computers constructed from nanoscale components could potentially dissipate much less energy than conventional CMOS devices, while providing comparable computing performance.…”

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Mechanical Computing Systems Using Only Links and Rotary Joints

Merkle

Freitas

Hogg

et al. 2018

Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

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A new model for mechanical computing is demonstrated that requires only two basic parts: links and rotary joints. These basic parts are combined into two main higher level structures: locks and balances, which suffice to create all necessary combinatorial and sequential logic required for a Turing-complete computational system. While working systems have yet to be implemented using this new approach, the mechanical simplicity of the systems described may lend themselves better to, e.g., microfabrication, than previous mechanical computing designs. Additionally, simulations indicate that if molecular-scale implementations could be realized, they would be far more energy-efficient than conventional electronic computers.

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“…To design custom-shaped geometries with more complex physical phenomena, offline computational optimization is usually used in the design process. Digital Mechanical Metamaterials proposes to embody mechanical movements into 3D printed objects using a modular method [3]. Each of the modular cells is specially designed such that they can pass digital information when connected together.…”

Section: Computational Design For Fabricationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interacting with Acoustic Simulation and Fabrication

2017

Adjunct Publication of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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Incorporating accurate physics-based simulation into interactive design tools is challenging. However, adding the physics accurately becomes crucial to several emerging technologies. For example, in virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) videos, the faithful reproduction of surrounding audios is required to bring the immersion to the next level. Similarly, as personal fabrication is made possible with accessible 3D printers, more intuitive tools that respect the physical constraints can help artists to prototype designs. One main hurdle is the sheer amount of computation complexity to accurately reproduce the real-world phenomena through physics-based simulation. In my thesis research, I develop interactive tools that implement efficient physics-based simulation algorithms for automatic optimization and intuitive user interaction.Comment: ACM UIST 2017 Doctoral Symposiu

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Digital Mechanical Metamaterials

Cited by 97 publications

References 27 publications

Dislocated Boardgames: Design Potentials for Remote Tangible Play

Dislocated Boardgames: Design Potentials for Remote Tangible Play

Mechanical Computing Systems Using Only Links and Rotary Joints

Interacting with Acoustic Simulation and Fabrication

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