Materiable: Rendering Dynamic Material Properties in Response to Direct Physical Touch with Shape Changing Interfaces
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Nakagaki, Ken
Vink, Luke
Counts, Jared B.
Windham, Daniel E.
Leithinger, Daniel
Follmer, Sean
Ishii, Hiroshi
Date Issued
May 2016
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ACM
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Nakagaki, Ken, Vink, Luke, Counts, Jared, Windham, Daniel, Leithinger, Daniel et al. 2016. "Materiable: Rendering Dynamic Material Properties in Response to Direct Physical Touch with Shape Changing Interfaces."
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© 2016 ACM. Shape changing interfaces give physical shapes to digital data so that users can feel and manipulate data with their hands and bodies. However, physical objects in our daily life not only have shape but also various material properties. In this paper, we propose an interaction technique to represent material properties using shape changing interfaces. Specifically, by integrating the multi-modal sensation techniques of haptics, our approach builds a perceptive model for the properties of deformable materials in response to direct manipulation. As a proof-of-concept prototype, we developed preliminary physics algorithms running on pin-based shape displays. The system can create computationally variable properties of deformable materials that are visually and physically perceivable. In our experiments, users identify three deformable material properties (flexibility, elasticity and viscosity) through direct touch interaction with the shape display and its dynamic movements. In this paper, we describe interaction techniques, our implementation, future applications and evaluation on how users differentiate between specific properties of our system. Our research shows that shape changing interfaces can go beyond simply displaying shape allowing for rich embodied interaction and perceptions of rendered materials with the hands and body.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
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https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858104
