ShapeClip: towards rapid prototyping with shape-changing displays for designers

John Hardy; Christian Weichel; Faisal Taher; John Vidler; Jason Alexander

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702599

ShapeClip: towards rapid prototyping with shape-changing displays for designers

John Hardy, Christian Weichel, Faisal Taher, John Vidler, Jason Alexander

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This paper presents ShapeClip: a modular tool capable of transforming any computer screen into a z-actuating shape-changing display. This enables designers to produce dynamic physical forms by "clipping" actuators onto screens. ShapeClip displays are portable, scalable, fault-tolerant, and support runtime re-arrangement. Users are not required to have knowledge of electronics or programming, and can develop motion designs with presentation software, image editors, or web-technologies. To evaluate ShapeClip we carried out a full-day workshop with expert designers. Participants were asked to generate shape-changing designs and then construct them using ShapeClip. ShapeClip enabled participants to rapidly and successfully transform their ideas into functional systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	19-28
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781450331456
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702599
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2015

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© ACM, 2015. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in John Hardy, Christian Weichel, Faisal Taher, John Vidler, and Jason Alexander. 2015. ShapeClip: Towards Rapid Prototyping with Shape-Changing Displays for Designers. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 19–28. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702599
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ShapeClip: towards rapid prototyping with shape-changing displays for designers. / Hardy, John; Weichel, Christian; Taher, Faisal et al.
CHI '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 19-28.

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