PortaChrome: A Portable Contact Light Source for Integrated Re-Programmable Multi-Color Textures
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Author(s)
Zhu, Yunyi
Honnet, Cedric
Kang, Yixiao
Zhu, Junyi
Zheng, Angelina
Heinz, Kyle
Tang, Grace
Musk, Luca
Wessely, Michael
Mueller, Stefanie
Date Issued
October 13, 2024
Publisher
ACM|The 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Citation
Zhu, Yunyi, Honnet, Cedric, Kang, Yixiao, Zhu, Junyi, Zheng, Angelina et al. 2024. "PortaChrome: A Portable Contact Light Source for Integrated Re-Programmable Multi-Color Textures."
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Abstract
In this paper, we present PortaChrome, a portable light source that can be attached to everyday objects to reprogram the color and texture of surfaces that come in contact with them. When PortaChrome makes contact with objects previously coated with photochromic dye, the UV and RGB LEDs inside PortaChrome create multi-color textures on the objects. In contrast to prior work, which used projectors for the color-change, PortaChrome has a thin and flexible form factor, which allows the color-change process to be integrated into everyday user interaction. Because of the close distance between the light source and the photochromic object, PortaChrome creates color textures in less than 4 minutes on average, which is 8 times faster than prior work. We demonstrate PortaChrome with four application examples, including data visualizations on textiles and dynamic designs on wearables.
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UIST ’24, October 13–16, 2024, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3654777.3676458
