Fabricating Bendy: Design and Development of Deformable Prototypes

Lo, Jessica; Girouard, Audrey

doi:10.1109/mprv.2014.47

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“…Our prototype involves a fully deformable silicon body with an embedded flexible circuit that incorporates bi-directional bend sensors located in each corner. We followed the design process outlined by Lo and Girouard [5] and modified their fabrication technique.…”

Section: Our Deformable Prototypementioning

confidence: 99%

Caret Manipulation using Deformable Input in Mobile Devices

Eady

Girouard

2015

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

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Caret movement is difficult with touch input because of finger occlusion and the imprecision of interacting with a small display using fingers. We hypothesize that bend might provide a better text manipulation solution. We propose bend gestures to move a single caret or dual carets without requiring hand repositioning. We create a deformable prototype and implement the gestures. We present our bend interactions for caret manipulation and discuss our prototype.

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Section: Our Deformable Prototypementioning

confidence: 99%

Caret Manipulation using Deformable Input in Mobile Devices

Eady

Girouard

2015

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

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“…We built the two prototypes using a similar methodology as in Lo & Girouard [4]. Our prototypes consist of a thin film of clear plastic, a custom flexible printed circuit, and a layer of Alumilite Silicone Rubber (70A) (Figure 4).…”

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Augmenting bend gestures with pressure zones on flexible displays

Ansara

Girouard

2014

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices &Amp; Services

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Flexible displays have paved the road for a new generation of interaction styles that allow users to bend and twist their devices. We hypothesize that bend gestures can be augmented with "hot-key" like pressure areas. This would allow single corner bends to have multiple functions. We created three pressure and bend interaction styles and compared them to bendonly gestures on two deformable prototypes. Users preferred the bend only prototype but still appreciated the pressure & bend prototype, particularly when it came to the lock/unlock application. We found that pressure interaction is a poor replacement for touch interaction, and present design suggestions to improve its performance.

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“…Existing techniques to implement deformable surfaces suffer from major drawbacks [16]. One approach requires cumbersome instrumentation of the surface itself, through, e.g., optical [12] or bend sensors [10,16]. This approach results in fragile, thick, and hard-to-build prototypes.…”

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confidence: 99%