Shape Display Shader Language (SDSL): a new programming model for shape changing displays

Christian Weichel; Jason Alexander; John Hardy

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Shape Display Shader Language (SDSL): a new programming model for shape changing displays

Christian Weichel, Jason Alexander, John Hardy

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Shape-changing displays' dynamic physical affordances have inspired a range of novel hardware designs to support new types of interaction. Despite rapid technological progress, the community lacks a common programming model for developing applications for these visually and physically-dynamic display surfaces. This results in complex, hardware-specific, custom-code that requires significant development effort and prevents researchers from easily building on and sharing their applications across hardware platforms. As a first attempt to address these issues we introduce SDSL, a Shape-Display Shader Language for easily programming shape-changing displays in a hardware-independent manner. We introduce the (graphics-derived) pipeline model of SDSL, an open-source implementation that includes a compiler, runtime, IDE, debugger, and simulator, and show demonstrator applications running on two shape-changing hardware setups.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1121-1126
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781450331463
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732727
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2015

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Shape Display Shader Language (SDSL): a new programming model for shape changing displays. / Weichel, Christian; Alexander, Jason; Hardy, John.
CHI EA '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 1121-1126.

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