Physicalizing Virtual Objects with Affordances to Support Tangible Interactions in AR

Abstract

When interacting with virtual objects, we could discover some problems around us. Digital information has no physical properties, and sense organ(vision, tactile) does not match very well. These have a negative influence on the user's interactive experience. In this paper, we propose to provide virtual objects with no physical properties with physical affordances to support tangible feedback via mechanical movement. In addition, we developed an interaction prototype system. The system could change the physical supports that are absorbed onto an electromagnet to adapt to the shape of different virtual objects and efficiently provide natural and consistent interactions when putting physical objects onto virtual objects in Augmented Reality (AR) scenarios.