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StackBlock: block-shaped interface for flexible stacking

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UIST '14 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2658779.2659104

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We propose a novel building-block interface called StackBlock that allows users to precisely construct 3D shapes by stacking blocks at arbitrary positions and angles. Infrared LEDs and phototransistors are laid in a matrix on each surface of a block to detect the areas contacted by other blocks. Contact-area information is transmitted to the bottom block by the relay of infrared communication between the stacked blocks, and then the bottom block sends all information to the host computer for recognizing the 3D shape. We implemented a prototype of StackBlock with several blocks and evaluated the accuracy and latency of 3D shape recognition. As a result, StackBlock could sufficiently perform 3D shape recognition for users' flexible stacking.

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UIST '14 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

October 2014

150 pages

ISBN:9781450330688

DOI:10.1145/2658779

General Chair:
Hrvoje Benko
Microsoft Research, USA
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Mira Dontcheva
Adobe, USA
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Daniel Wigdor
University of Toronto, USA

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