TY - GEN
T1 - User created tangible controls using ForceForm
T2 - 26th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2013
AU - Tsimeris, Jessica
AU - Stevenson, Duncan
AU - Adcock, Matt
AU - Gedeon, Tom
AU - Broughton, Michael
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Touch surfaces are common devices but they are often uniformly flat and provide little flexibility beyond changing the visual information communicated to the user via software. Furthermore, controls for interaction are not tangible and are usually specified and placed by the user interface designer. Using ForceForm, a dynamically deformable interactive surface, the user is able to directly sculpt the surface to create tangible controls with force feedback properties. These controls can be made according to the user's specifications, and can then be relinquished when no longer needed. We describe this method of interaction, provide an implementation of a slider, and ideas for further controls.
AB - Touch surfaces are common devices but they are often uniformly flat and provide little flexibility beyond changing the visual information communicated to the user via software. Furthermore, controls for interaction are not tangible and are usually specified and placed by the user interface designer. Using ForceForm, a dynamically deformable interactive surface, the user is able to directly sculpt the surface to create tangible controls with force feedback properties. These controls can be made according to the user's specifications, and can then be relinquished when no longer needed. We describe this method of interaction, provide an implementation of a slider, and ideas for further controls.
KW - interaction techniques
KW - tactile feedback
KW - tangible interaction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84887370397&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2508468.2514727
DO - 10.1145/2508468.2514727
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781450324069
T3 - UIST 2013 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
SP - 95
EP - 96
BT - UIST 2013 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Y2 - 8 October 2013 through 11 October 2013
ER -