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Magnetform: a Shape-change Display Toolkit for Material-oriented Designers

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Iddo Yehoshua Wald,

Oren ZuckermanAuthors Info & Claims

TEI '21: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Article No.: 90, Pages 1 - 14

https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3446066

Published: 14 February 2021 Publication History

Abstract

This work presents Magnetform, a shape-change display toolkit designed to enable exploration of movement in soft materials. The toolkit allows designers with no technical knowledge to leverage their material expertise to experiment with shape-change. We present the toolkit design, and case studies with two design studios who used the toolkit for 15-days each. Through the presentation of their process, we reflect on two main themes: empowering designers to participate in shape-change exploration; and the developing practice of designing objects which integrate motion. We situate this work as part of the growing efforts in the TEI community to involve designers in the evolution of shape-changing interfaces, and demonstrate how material-oriented designers could contribute to this field in which materiality plays a major role in.

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Magnetform: a Shape-change Display Toolkit for Material-oriented Designers
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  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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TEI '21: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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DOI:10.1145/3430524

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Yasu K(2024)MagneSwift: Low-Cost, Interactive Shape Display Leveraging Magnetic MaterialsProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642058(1-11)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642058
Xing SVan Dijk BAn PBruns MChuang YWang S(2023)Puffy: A Step-by-step Guide to Craft Bio-inspired Artifacts with Interactive MaterialityProceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction10.1145/3569009.3572800(1-14)Online publication date: 26-Feb-2023
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Yasu K(2022)MagneShape: A Non-electrical Pin-Based Shape-Changing DisplayProceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology10.1145/3526113.3545645(1-12)Online publication date: 29-Oct-2022
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