MagneSwift

Kentaro Yasu (2024)

Low-Cost, Interactive Shape Display Leveraging Magnetic Materials

Pin-based shape displays present shapes and motion by moving arrays of pins, but using many linear actuators increases the cost of the device. On the other hand, controlling the height of the pins using magnetic force is a very simple and inexpensive way to display shapes. However, the magnetization process of precise magnetic patterns is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Therefore, we propose MagneSwift, a simple and interactive shape display that allows users to display shapes and motions using hand-drawn magnetic patterns.

1_Draw&Display

2_Configuration

3_ShapeDoodle

4_Interaction

5_Game

Publication:

Kentaro Yasu. 2024. MagneSwift: Low-Cost, Interactive Shape Display Leveraging Magnetic Materials. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642058 [Full Paper] [ACM Digital Library]
Kentaro Yasu. 2023. Demonstrating SuperMagneShape: Interactive Usage of a Passive Pin-Based Shape-Changing Display. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '23 Adjunct). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 59, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3586182.3615768 [Demo] [Jury Best Honorable Mention & People's Choice Best Demo Honorable Mention UIST2023] [ACM Digital Library]

2020.5.12 Updated.