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Project Zanzibar Demonstration: A Portable and Flexible Tangible Interaction Platform

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Haiyan ZhangAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Paper No.: D324, Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3186484

Published: 20 April 2018 Publication History

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We demonstrate Project Zanzibar, a flexible mat that locates, uniquely identifies, and communicates with tangible objects placed on its surface, as well as senses a user's touch and hover gestures. Zanzibar integrates efficient and localised Near Field Communication (NFC) over a large surface area; object tracking combining NFC signal strength and capacitive footprint detection. In a series of applications, we showcase Zanzibar's capabilities of interacting with tangibles of varying complexity and interactive capabilities, sensing orientation on the mat, harvesting power, providing additional input and output, stack, or extend sensing outside the bounds of the mat.

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Nicolas Villar, Daniel Cletheroe, Greg Saul, Christian Holz, Tim Regan, Oscar Salandin, Misha Sra, Hui-Shyong Yeo, William Field, and Haiyan Zhang. 2018. Project Zanzibar: A Portable and Flexible Tangible Interaction Platform. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA.

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CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2018

3155 pages

ISBN:9781450356213

DOI:10.1145/3170427

General Chairs:
Regan Mandryk
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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Mark Hancock
University of Waterloo, Canada
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Mark Perry
Brunel University London, UK
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Anna Cox
University College London, UK

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Wang SLiu YGuo J(2021)Tangible Multi-card Projector-Based Interaction with PhysicsEntertainment Computing – ICEC 202010.1007/978-3-030-65736-9_21(248-254)Online publication date: 5-Jan-2021
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