Kirigami Haptic Swatches: Design Methods for Cut-and-Fold Haptic Feedback Mechanisms

Shape-Haptics: Planar & Passive Force Feedback Mechanisms for Physical Interfaces

“…These mechanisms are easy to fabricate with a laser cutter and they deliver a broad range of haptic force feedback profiles through simple customization. (2) We share insights from our material exploration into designing and fabricating compliant structures with POM, as well as data from characterizing these compliant structures through virtual material simulations and real world measurements. (3) We provide a computational design sandbox that enables designers to explore Shape-Haptics mechanisms while receiving real-time estimates of the corresponding FD curves.…”

“…In addition, researchers have demonstrated composing a haptic texture by configuring different magnets along a path and computing the resultant magnetic field [21]. Besides magnets, HCI researchers have also demonstrated passive haptic mechanisms using other materials such as paper [2] and 3D printing on fabric [9].…”

“…The related work on physical materials and haptics reveal important trade-offs when designing passive haptic systems for physical interfaces. While passive material-driven haptic systems lack the on-the-fly reprogrammability of active haptic systems, they easily leverage digital fabrication processes such as 3D printing [9,43], laser cutting [2], and physical crafting processes [40] to customize the haptic force feedback delivered. Material-driven haptic systems are thus appropriate in applications where the haptic feedback remains constant for a specific interaction.…”

VibEmoji: Exploring User-authoring Multi-modal Emoticons in Social Communication

“…Several studies have also encompassed supporting haptic communication in text messaging [25,36]. In addition to end-user interfaces, related research has contributed to theories [29], tools [9,44], or evaluation techniques [42] of haptic experience to better support related design and research. For example, VibViz [44] offers a large, diverse library of vibrotactile stimuli for haptic feedback design, based on which we developed the vibrotactile library for VibEmoji.…”

Pop-up Print

“…For example, we may be able to utilize the buckling force of planar folding for actuating 3D printed robots or shape-changing interfaces. Also, the bistability of planar folding can be harnessed for 3D printable input devices, such as haptic buttons [4] or switches [22]. To detect the change between the folded/unfolded states, we can use a conductive flexible Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) filament for the soft material part and measure the change of the electric resistance of the object when folded/unfolded.…”