Sketching Shape-changing Interfaces

Morphees+

“…The more exposure to stiff objects' deformation may cause more design ideas on mechanical deformations than organic ones as shown in an explorative design study [44]. It is also possible that users better perceive deformations of stiff objects, but this is not explored in this study.…”

“…Kwak et al [26] reported a repertory grid study that aims to describe the shape change features from the users' point of view by eliciting personal constructs about shape-change and focusing on understanding the feeling generated by different deformations. Rasmussen et al [44] presented an analysis of sketches made by designers, focusing on a radio and a mobile phone, and, using on Rasmussen et al taxonomy, they show which features are most often used in general or for certain devices (e.g., Spatiality used only for radio, Adding/Subtracting used only for mobile phone).…”

“…Shape-changing interface taxonomies [4,43,46] help describe the reconfigurability of interfaces and can be used to design new interfaces [26,35,44,52]. To date, there has been little effort to unify and strengthen these taxonomies despite shape changing interfaces continuously evolving.…”

LiftTiles

“…Therefore, creating appropriate prototyping tools for these interfaces is considered one of the most important and critical goals in shape-changing UI research [2]. Paper sketches are commonly used to design shape-changing interfaces [30], but they are static and lack the affordances of physical objects. Tools like ShapeClips [14] and Kinetic Sketchup [27] have demonstrated how rapid physical prototyping tools enable designers to explore a range of applications in hours, rather than weeks.…”

Materials that matter

“…At the moment of writing this thesis, the topic of shape changing interfaces, where the materials are the informations, is still an open discussion. In [95] it is highlighted "as we lack studies of how such interfaces are designed, as well as what high-level strategies, such as…”