“ForceTile: Tabletop Tangible Interface with Vision-based Force Distribution Sensing” by Kakehi, Jo, Sato, Minamizawa, Nii, et al. …
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- ForceTile: Tabletop Tangible Interface with Vision-based Force Distribution Sensing
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Today, placing physical objects on a tabletop display is common for intuitive tangible input [Ullmer and Ishii 1997]. The overall goal of our project is to increase the interactivity of tabletop tangible interfaces. To achieve this goal, we propose a novel tabletop tangible interface named ‘ForceTile.’ This interface can detect the force distribution on its surface as well as its position, rotation and ID by using a vision-based approach. In our previous optical force sensors “GelForce” [Kamiyama et al. 2004], an elastic body and cameras are fixed together. Contrarily, on this system, users can place and move multiple tile-shaped interfaces on the tabletop display freely. Furthermore, users can interact with projected images on the tabletop screen by moving, pushing or pinching the ForceTiles.
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KAMIYAMA, K., KAJIMOTO, H., KAWAKAMI, N., MIZOTA, T., TACHI, S., AND VLACK, K. 2004. GelForce. In SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies, ACM.
ULLMER, B., AND ISHII, H. 1997. The metadesk: Models and Prototypes for Tangible User Interfaces. In Proceedings of UIST’97, ACM, 223–232.
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