Abstract
This work develops a system of spherical magnetic tangibles, GaussMarbles, that exploits the unique affordances of spherical tangibles for interacting with portable physical constraints. The proposed design of each magnetic sphere includes a magnetic polyhedron in the center. The magnetic polyhedron provides bi-polar magnetic fields, which are expanded in equal dihedral angles as robust features for tracking, allowing an analog Hall-sensor grid to resolve the near-surface 3D position accurately in real-time. Possible interactions between the magnetic spheres and portable physical constraints in various levels of embodiment were explored using several example applications.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
| Pages | 4228-4232 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-3362-7 |
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| Publication status | Published - 7 May 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 34th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016 - San Jose, United States Duration: 7 May 2016 → 12 May 2016 Conference number: 34 https://chi2016.acm.org/wp https://chi2016.acm.org/wp |
Conference
| Conference | 34th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016 |
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| Abbreviated title | CHI 2016 |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | San Jose |
| Period | 7/05/16 → 12/05/16 |
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Keywords
- analog hall-sensor grid, gausssense, magnetic tangibles, physical constraints