Project Details
Description
Today's touchscreens are flat, solid surfaces that do not reproduce real-world object interaction properties such as stiffness or deformation. The EU-funded FORCE-UI project will revolutionise touch input. It aims to radically transform touchscreen-based interaction by increasing its expressivity. The project will install together three force modalities, force input and resistive and kinetic force feedback, in a display device. It will combine advanced hardware prototyping with experimental computer science and psychophysical methodologies to establish a new model for human-computer interaction, the Force Responsive Deformable User Interfaces (FRUI). FORCE-UI represents a revolution in touch input with considerable implications for the use of interactive systems.
| Status | Finished |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 1/09/20 → 28/02/26 |
Funding
- European Research Council
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Research output
- 3 Chapter in a published conference proceeding
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HydroHaptics: High-Fidelity Force-Feedback on Soft Deformable Interfaces using Hydrostatic Transmission
Nash, J., Sauve, K., van Riet, C. M., van Oosterhout, A., Sharma, A., Clarke, C. & Alexander, J., 27 Sept 2025, UIST 2025 - Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology: UIST ’25. Bianchi, A., Glassman, E. L., Mackay, W. E., Zhao, S., Oakley, I. & Kim, J. (eds.). New York, U. S. A.: Association for Computing Machinery, 59. (UIST 2025 - Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology).Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding
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DeformIO: Dynamic Stiffness Control on a Deformable Force-sensing Display
Nash, J. D., Steer, C., Dinca, T., Sharma, A., Favaratto santos, A., Wildgoose, B. T., Ager, A., Clarke, C. & Alexander, J., 11 May 2024, CHI 2024 - Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems. Mueller, F. F., Kyburz, P., Williamson, J. R. & Sas, C. (eds.). New York, U. S. A.: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1-8 98. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding
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Squishy, Yet Satisfying: Exploring Deformable Shapes' Cross-Modal Correspondences with Colours and Emotions
Steer, C., Sauvé, K., Jain, A., Lawal, O., Proulx, M. J., Jicol, C. & Alexander, J., 11 May 2024, CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems. Floyd Mueller, F., Kyburz, P., Williamson, J. R., Sas, C., Wilson, M. L., Toups Dugas, P. & Shklovski, I. (eds.). New York, U. S. A.: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1-20 20 p. 331. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding
Open Access13 Link opens in a new tab Citations (SciVal)
Datasets
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Dataset for "Investigating the Impact of Deformable, Movable and Rigid Surfaces on Force-Input Interactions"
Nash, J. (Creator), Sauve, K. (Creator), Sharma, A. (Creator), Clarke, C. (Creator) & Alexander, J. (Creator), University of Bath, 1 May 2025
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-01522
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