MorpheesPlug: A Toolkit for Prototyping Shape-Changing Interfaces

Hyunyoung Kim, Aluna Everitt, Carlos Tejada, Mengyu Zhong, Daniel Ashbrook

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Number of pages15
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Publication date2021
Pages1-13
Article number101
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4503-8096-6/21/05
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
EventCHI 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems -
Duration: 8 May 202113 May 2021
https://chi2021.acm.org/

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ConferenceCHI 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Period08/05/202113/05/2021
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Bibliographical note

https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445786

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