MorpheesPlug: A Toolkit for Prototyping Shape-Changing Interfaces
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MorpheesPlug : A Toolkit for Prototyping Shape-Changing Interfaces. / Kim, Hyunyoung; Everitt, Aluna; Tejada, Carlos; Zhong, Mengyu; Ashbrook, Daniel.
Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. p. 1-13 101.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - MorpheesPlug
T2 - CHI 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
AU - Kim, Hyunyoung
AU - Everitt, Aluna
AU - Tejada, Carlos
AU - Zhong, Mengyu
AU - Ashbrook, Daniel
N1 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445786
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Toolkits for shape-changing interfaces (SCIs) enable designers and researchers to easily explore the broad design space of SCIs. However, despite their utility, existing approaches are often limited in the number of shape-change features they can express. This paper introduces MorpheesPlug , a toolkit for creating SCIs that covers seven of the eleven shape-change features identified in the literature. MorpheesPlug is comprised of (1) a set of six standardized widgets that express the shape-change features with user-definable parameters; (2) software for 3D-modeling the widgets to create 3D-printable pneumatic SCIs; and (3) a hardware platform to control the widgets. To evaluate MorpheesPlug we carried out ten open-ended interviews with novice and expert designers who were asked to design a SCI using our software. Participants highlighted the ease of use and expressivity of the MorpheesPlug.
AB - Toolkits for shape-changing interfaces (SCIs) enable designers and researchers to easily explore the broad design space of SCIs. However, despite their utility, existing approaches are often limited in the number of shape-change features they can express. This paper introduces MorpheesPlug , a toolkit for creating SCIs that covers seven of the eleven shape-change features identified in the literature. MorpheesPlug is comprised of (1) a set of six standardized widgets that express the shape-change features with user-definable parameters; (2) software for 3D-modeling the widgets to create 3D-printable pneumatic SCIs; and (3) a hardware platform to control the widgets. To evaluate MorpheesPlug we carried out ten open-ended interviews with novice and expert designers who were asked to design a SCI using our software. Participants highlighted the ease of use and expressivity of the MorpheesPlug.
U2 - 10.1145/3411764.3445786
DO - 10.1145/3411764.3445786
M3 - Article in proceedings
SP - 1
EP - 13
BT - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 8 May 2021 through 13 May 2021
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