MorpheesPlug: a toolkit for prototyping shape-changing interfaces

Hyunyoung Kim; Aluna Everitt; Carlos Tejada; Mengyu Zhong; Daniel Ashbrook

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445786

MorpheesPlug: a toolkit for prototyping shape-changing interfaces

Hyunyoung Kim, Aluna Everitt, Carlos Tejada, Mengyu Zhong, Daniel Ashbrook

Computer Science

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Abstract

Toolkits for shape-changing interfaces (SCIs) enable designers and researchers to easily explore the broad design space of SCIs. However, despite their utility, existing approaches are often limited in the number of shape-change features they can express. This paper introduces MorpheesPlug , a toolkit for creating SCIs that covers seven of the eleven shape-change features identified in the literature. MorpheesPlug is comprised of (1) a set of six standardized widgets that express the shape-change features with user-definable parameters; (2) software for 3D-modeling the widgets to create 3D-printable pneumatic SCIs; and (3) a hardware platform to control the widgets. To evaluate MorpheesPlug we carried out ten open-ended interviews with novice and expert designers who were asked to design a SCI using our software. Participants highlighted the ease of use and expressivity of the MorpheesPlug.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '21
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450380966
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445786
Publication status	Published - 6 May 2021
Event	CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths - Virtual, Virtual, Online, Japan Duration: 8 May 2021 → 13 May 2021 https://chi2021.acm.org/

Publication series

Name	CHI: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Conference

Conference	CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI 2021
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Virtual, Online
Period	8/05/21 → 13/05/21
Internet address	https://chi2021.acm.org/

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank Jason Alexander, Irina Shklovski, Kasper Hornbæk, and the HCC Section at the University of Copenhagen for reviewing the paper. This work is supported by the University of Copenhagen and EPSRC (EP/M021882/2).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.

Keywords

Shape-changing interfaces
Toolkit design

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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Kim, H., Everitt, A., Tejada, C., Zhong, M., & Ashbrook, D. (2021). MorpheesPlug: a toolkit for prototyping shape-changing interfaces. In CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 101 (CHI: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445786

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Kim, H, Everitt, A, Tejada, C, Zhong, M & Ashbrook, D 2021, MorpheesPlug: a toolkit for prototyping shape-changing interfaces. in CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 101, CHI: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Virtual, Online, Japan, 8/05/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445786

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MorpheesPlug: a toolkit for prototyping shape-changing interfaces

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