Raphael WimmerSep 3, 2023

The workshop "Be-greifbare Interaktion" at #MuC2023 kicks off with Andreas Schmid talking about "From Trash to Treasure: Experiences from Building Tangible Artifacts out of Discarded Components"

Paper: https://dl.gi.de/items/1923b3ad-5ca1-4641-b30b-da99fce6a43f

Workshop program: https://fgbgi.mensch-und-computer.de/2023/08/29/16th-workshop-be-greifbare-interaktion-at-mensch-und-computer-2023/

From Trash to Treasure: Experiences from Building Tangible Artifacts out of Discarded Components

Prototyping interactive hardware artifacts is an iterative process that can produce significant amounts of waste. This problem becomes particularly apparent in teaching, when multiple students build the same artifact as an exercise and components can break when used improperly. In the context of a university course on tangible interaction, we explored how material found in the trash could be used as a resource for prototyping interactive artifacts. We could source interesting components and found that a bottom-up prototyping approach based on those components opened up new design spaces. Furthermore, as we relied on trash as a resource, we were able to considerably reduce waste during the course.

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Next up: "How Do Users Like Their Tangibles? An Exploration of Interaction Techniques for Data Transfer with Everyday Objects" presented by Martina Emmert and Nicole Schönwerth.

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Paper: https://dl.gi.de/items/cb8f9a3d-5d6b-4930-b0c5-bd666a2b7e67

How Do Users Like Their Tangibles? An Exploration of Interaction Techniques for Data Transfer with Everyday Objects

People interact with a multitude of personal digital devices and infrastructural hardware every day. Oftentimes, they need to transfer data from one device to another. In many cases this process is still surprisingly cumbersome, requiring additional, non-intuitive steps, such as authentication, device pairing, or network setup. Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) allow for quick and intuitive physical interaction with digital data. Therefore, they offer a promising design space towards more natural interaction techniques for cross-device data transfer. In a workshop and an elicitation study, we investigated different form factors and interaction techniques using six everyday objects in three different situations. We found that designing effective tangibles requires consideration of various factors which strongly depend on the target group and intended use case.

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Talk No. 3:

"BitPlush: Unleashing the Paws-ibilities of Smart Materials in Smart Plush Toys"
presented by Klaus Stephan.

Paper: https://dl.gi.de/items/6c765c27-d4af-48c4-9929-e7016334182d

#BMBF project page: https://www.interaktive-technologien.de/projekte/bitplush

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Bitplush: Unleashing the Paws-ibilities of Smart Materials in Smart Plush Toys

‘bitplush’ is a project that will explore how individuals can be emotionally connected through smart connected plush toys. The goal is to explore and formalize the design space of implicit and multimodal interactions that can be supported with and through them, in a way that is tangible, graspable, and meaningful. To achieve this, highquality, handcrafted plush toys will be equipped with hardware and software for innovative data processing and communication. Off-the-shelf as well as novel textile-integrated and textile-based sensors and actuators will be used to develop novel communication channels that will enable a sense of “closeness over distance” without diminishing other forms of communication. Interdisciplinary tools, methods, materials and theories of social relationships serve as a framework for our design space. We conclude with a brief discussion on the planned iterative stages of this project and seek opportunities for like-minded collaborations.

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And the final paper presentation at the workshop "Be-greifbare Interaktion" (#MuC2023):

"Utilizing Liquid Transfer for Weight Simulation: Challenges and Future Directions", presented by Alexander Kalus

Paper: https://dl.gi.de/items/facc2712-ba3a-4c8d-8d39-006dbc8c06e3

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Utilizing Liquid Transfer for Weight Simulation: Challenges and Future Directions

Liquid mass transfer has emerged as a promising approach to induce weight perception in Virtual Reality (VR). This concept utilizes a tubing system to exchange a liquid between two or more units, to change their weight. As at least one of these units is attached to the user’s body or controller, different weight sensations can be achieved. In this position paper, we provide an overview of related work in the area of liquid-based weight-changing devices, point at limitations of their approach and discuss future directions for their advancement.

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Some impressions from the demo session. 1/2

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Some impressions from the demo session. 2/2

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