Authors:
Pin-Cheng Lin, HyunJoo Oh, Mark Gross, Michael Eisenberg, Sherry His, Becca Glowacki, Mark Wonnacott, Amy Rose, Emma Powell, Liv Bargman, Seungwoo Je, Brendan Rooney, Liwei Chan, Andrea Bianchi
1. The Sound of a Hug
The Sound of a Hug is an installation about an experience I had when I was young. My parents would take me to nursery school by motorcycle. On the way to school, I could hear a melody deep in my heart, while also hearing the sounds around me. This installation has a set of 3D-printed microswitches that respond when squeezed in a particular way. There are three parts to the mechanism that make three kinds of sounds: the melody of my memory, the sound of the motorcycle, and the sound of the trees swaying in the wind. When I hug my installation—just as when I hugged my parents on the motorcycle—I can hear the same melody and sounds once again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw7qpG9lFM0
Pin-Cheng Lin, Shih Chien University
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Experiencing the Sound of a Hug. |
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The Sound of a Hug artifact. |
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The sound-producing mechanism of the installation. |
2. PaperMech
PaperMech (aka FoldMecha) is a design system for the exploratory construction of mechanical papercraft. It enables users to design movements with simple mechanisms by modifying parameters, download the parts and folding nets to build the mechanisms, and adapt them into their own creations. Our website (below) provides assembly instructions along with a gallery, where you will find a diverse array of expressive paper machines created by our workshop participants.
Oh, H., Kim, J., Morales, C., Gross, M., Eisenberg, M., and Hsi, S. FoldMecha: Exploratory design and engineering of mechanical papercraft. Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. ACM, New York, 2017, 131–139; https://doi.org/10.1145/3024969.3024991
Oh, H., Eisenberg, M., Gross, M.D., and Hsi, S. Paper mechatronics: A design case study for a young medium.
Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. ACM, New York, 2015, 371–374; http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2771839.2771919
HyunJoo Oh, University of Colorado Boulder
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Mark D. Gross, University of Colorado Boulder
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Michael Eisenberg, University of Colorado Boulder
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Sherry His, Concord Consortium
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On the PaperMech website, users design a mechanical movement by modifying local parameters in simulation, then download parts to cut and build it following the assembly tutorials. |
3. Bear Abouts
Bear Abouts is a research project into storytelling and tangible media. We have developed a digital and physical storytelling platform for children that gives kids the power to create and influence stories through making. We built a platform for Android devices in Unity 3D that uses touch points to connect with a package of physical components. It combines paper pages with animations and events on screen to make tactile storytelling experiences for children.
Glowacki, B.R. Bear Abouts: Sharing stories across the physical and digital. Proc. of IDC 2017. ACM, New York, 2017, 683–686; http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/33007
Becca Rose Glowacki, University of the West of England, Bristol, and Pervasive Media Studio
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Mark Wonnacott
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Amy Rose, Pervasive Media Studio
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Emma Powell
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Liv Bargman, Central St Martins
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Children absorbed in tactile storytelling. |
4. tactoRing
tactoRing is a novel smart ring that provides rich, yet subtle, discrete haptic feedback based on the high tactile resolution of the finger skin. tactoRing excites the skin by dragging a small movable actuator around the finger, directly in contact with the skin. This allows users to perceive tactile feedback in the form of motion applied to specific locations around the finger, with different speeds and directions. By controlling the ring through a separate device such as a mobile phone or a car navigation system, the ring can be used, for example, to convey street directions and caller IDs using motion.
Je, S., Rooney, B., Chan, L., and Bianchi, A. tactoRing: A skin-drag discrete display. Proc. of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, 2017, 3106–3114.
Seungwoo Je, KAIST
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Brendan Rooney, KAIST
Liwei Chan, National Chiao Tung University
Andrea Bianchi, KAIST
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tactoRing contains a small, movable skin-drag tactor that can rotate. |
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Prototype of a car navigation interface, where street directions can be signaled on the hand without the need for additional visual information. |
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An Android application simulates phone calls, incoming messages, and calendar events. When any of these events happen, a notification is initiated by moving the tactoRing to a pre-specified target. |
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