Morphing Cube is a transformable kinetic structure, which physically reconstructs geometric shapes of computer graphics. This work consists of rubbers, guts, motors and a control device. By Controlling 8 motors of an outer frame, the cube made of rubbers can move parallel and deform various shapes such as a trapezoid, a plane. It is considering to be applies in a deformable space and the architecture.
Hand drawing is an activity not only for recording one’s message, but also for creation and thinking. This paper presents dePENd, a novel interactive system that assists handwriting using regular pens and paper. Our system utilizes the ferromagnetic feature of the metal tip of a regular ballpoint pen. The computer controlling the X and Y positions of the magnet under the surface of the table provides entirely new drawing experiences. For example, users can draw diagrams and pictures consisting of lines and circles, which are difficult to create by free-hand writing, easily using pens. By using digital pens, the system can change actions interactively according to the user’s movement. As for the applications of this system, this enables users to adopt interactive applications such as copying and pasting drafted pictures or scaling the pictures. In addition, we have proposed a communication tool with two dePENd systems. Furthermore we have implemented the system and evaluated the technical features of it. In this paper, we describe the detail of design and implementations of the device along with applications, technical evaluation and future prospects.
Junichi Yamaoka and Yasuaki Kakehi. 2013. DePENd: augmented handwriting system using ferromagnetism of a ballpoint pen. In Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST ’13). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 203–210.
