Tangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulation

Introduction

Traditional Skeleton operation with Mouse and keyboard interfaces fall short because their control spaces do not match the perceptual space of the 3D interaction.

How it works?

Pairs of permanent magnets and Hall-effect sensors embedded in each joint measure rotations

Control principles

1. Joint

2. Splitter

3. Extension segment

4. Endcap

5. Controller

Review

Reduce the eye hurt.

Reduce the skeleton Recording time.

Accurate control to skeleton.

LightBundle: Grasping Light through Plant-Inspired Interactions

Introduction

• Inspired by our daily interactions with bundlesof vegetables

• LightBundle affords grabbing, peeling andtwisting of bundle and strands

• The metaphoric plant properties lendthemselves to interaction scenarios rangingfrom timing, location, social awareness toenergy transfer

How it work?

Bundling

Explore the direct manipulation of the grasping and releasing a bundle

Peeling

By peeling open an outer layer an inner layer is revealed

Pointing

Take the growth directionality of plants as a metaphor and enable the strands in the bundle to point in different directions to indicate information

Twisting

Use this action of twisting together strands as a metaphor for binding and connecting two different sources of information

Grasping

By grasping light the light in the room dims down

Social

In the social aspect, the LightBundle enables one to keep up to date with what is happening with their friends without having to spend countless hours on social networking sites.

Pointing

With the pointing metaphor, one can imagine a scenario during a dinner party where the host wants to keep track of when his guests are arriving .

Review

How plant-inspired metaphors open interaction opportunities inbundles and strands of optical fibers.

LightBundle as a Radical Atom that changes color, light, and sensingproperties based on user manipulation.

In the future where material properties become malleable andseamlessly engage our full sensory.