CHI 2013 Interactivity with Video Previews
Interactive Sensory Objects for Improving Access to Heritage
This project aims to help improve the accessibility and experiences of museums and heritage sites through the creation of interactive, multisensory objects, developed collaboratively with learning disabled people.
Mobile Rhythmic Interaction in a Sonic Tennis Game
Sonic Tennis: motion-based audio only game for mobile devices
The Augmented Video Wall: Multi-user AR Interaction With Public Displays
The Augmented Video Wall demonstrates a novel collocated interaction technique for public displays creating the illusion of literally private views by utilizing means of augmented reality.
ThorDMX: A Prototyping Toolkit for Interactive Stage Lighting Control
ThorDMX is a lightweight prototyping toolkit for designing expressive, collaborative and flexible stage lighting controllers. The toolkit provides a framework, code and tutorials for developing controllers using familiar prototyping tools.
De-MO : Designing Action-Sound Relationships with the MO Interfaces
Demonstrations of the Modular Musical Objects (MO), an ensemble of tangible interfaces and software modules for creating novel musical instruments or for augmenting objects with sound.
GravitySpace: Tracking Users and Their Poses in a Smart Room Using a Pressure-Sensing Floor
GravitySpace is a pressure-sensitive floor: It identifies and tracks users, recognizes poses, and detects objects based on pressure imprints. Virtual 3D-avatars visualize in real-time what users are doing on the floor.
Parallel Faceted Browsing
Parallel faceted browsing makes it easy to construct - and view the results of - multiple interrelated queries. It facilitates (collaborative) exploration when you don't know what you're looking for.
Art Mapping in Paris
Art Maps aims to explore the relation between artworks and the location that they depict, and to improve the quality of the artworks’ geographic data, through a crowdsourcing process.
Storeys – Designing Collaborative Storytelling Interfaces
Storeys is a graph-based visualization tool designed for collaborative story writing that represents stories in a branching tree of individual sentences.
ColourNet: A System of Interactive and Interacting Digital Artworks
ColourNet is a digital art system composed of two interactive and interacting artworks - Shaping Form and Transformations.
HeartLink: Open Broadcast of Live Biometric Data to Social Networks
A system to crowdsource motivation in real-time. Users conducting a task share their biometric data over social networks and \ remote viewers cheer in social support.
HapSeat: A Novel Approach to Simulate Motion in a Consumer Environment
The HapSeat is a novel approach for simulating motion sensations in consumer settings. Come to to experience four videos enhanced by haptic effects of motion!
Chiseling Bodies: an Augmented Dance Performance
Chiseling Bodies is an interactive augmented dance performance, where one classical dancer interacts with abstract visuals. They are massive mass-spring systems whose dynamical behaviors are echoing the dancer's movement qualities.
PianoText: Transferring Musical Expertise to Text Entry
PianoText allows text entry on a regular piano. It is based on a computational method that maps structures in the english language to \ well practiced music patterns. \
Colocated Surface Sound Interaction
We show a conductive paper musical instrument, magnets mounted in gloves with printed conductors to form planar loudspeaker arrays and conductive and resistive fabrics integrated in loudspeaker.
PaperTonnetz: Supporting Music Composition with Interactive Paper
PaperTonnetz lets users compose music with tone networks representations on interactive paper. Create the paper interface, draw and select paths with the pen in the network to create chords and melodies.
KINECTWheels: Wheelchair-Accessible Motion-Based Game Interaction
KINECTWheels helps designers integrate wheelchair-based input into motion-based games. Besides upper body gestures, the system tracks wheelchair movements such as turning to the sides and moving back and forth.
Big Huggin: A Bear for Affection Gaming
Big Huggin' is a game played with a 30 inch custom teddy bear controller. Players complete the game by providing several well-timed hugs. It is an experiment in alternative interface.
NoiseBear: A Wireless Malleable Multiparametric Controller for use in Assistive Technology Contexts
NoiseBear is a malleable multiparametric interface, made with conductive textiles, currently being developed in participatory design workshops with disabled children.
Spinning Data: Remixing Live Data Like a Music DJ
Spin data! Using a DJ turntable curate and mix the story of a live event based on social media. Try it for CHI or other ongoing event.
Kalpana II: A Dome based Learning Installation for Indian Schools
‘Kalpana’— meaning imagination, provides a dome based immersive experience and make students fantasize about experience a day at different places on earth.
Gaze-supported Foot Interaction in Zoomable Information Spaces
The demo illustrates a combination of gaze and foot input to navigate in Google Earth. Several alternatives for multimodal gaze-supported foot interaction for pan and zoom can be experienced.
Overlapped Playback
Overlapped Playback employs interlaced video frames to digitally expand upon a classical optical illusion. The animations are generated by changing one’s spatial orientation in relation to the projected image.
Cuboino. Extending Physical Games. An Example.
Cuboino is a computationally augmented physical toy system designed as an extension for the existing marble-game cuboro.
Smarter Objects: Using AR Technology to Program Physical Objects and their Interactions
Smarter Objects provides a flexible user interface, combining both tangible and graphical user interfaces, using a GUI for understanding and programming and a TUI for day-to-day operation.
Repentir: Digital Exploration Beneath the Surface of an Oil Painting
Repentir is a mobile application that employs marker-less tracking and augmented reality to enable gallery visitors to explore the under drawing and successive stages of pigment beneath a painting's surface.
Musical Embrace: Facilitating Engaging Play Experiences through Social Awkwardness
Musical Embrace is a novel digital game that promotes social awkwardness, arising through close physical proximity between strangers, and challenges current ideologies associated with digital games, play and interactivity.
Venus
Please approach the garment to witness its behavior.
EducaTableware: Computer-Augmented Tableware to Enhance the Eating Experiences
We propose “EducaTableware (Educate/Tableware)”, a design for interactive tableware devices that makes eating more fun and improves daily eating habits through auditory feedback to encourage specific mealtime behaviors.
Sweat-Atoms: Turning Physical Exercise into Physical Objects
SweatAtoms is a 3D modelling application that crafts physical objects using the heart beat pattern of the individual engaged in physical activities.
Sense of the Deep
Sense of the Deep is a multi-user interactive installation that employs a unique gel-based controller to collaboratively manipulate 3D holograms in real time.
CELL
Cell is a pneumatically controlled, body augmenting, interactive and kinetic wearable/sculpture/installation that transforms in response to the user’s breath.
SOUND BOUND: Making a Graphic Equalizer More Interactive and Fun
SOUND BOUND contributes to ordinary graphic equalizer evolving into interactive musical instrument. It actively engages people for listening to music and it enhances their experience by distorting the music.
Gravity of Light
‘Gravity of Light’ is an interactive wearable art made of 3D printed smart textile that displays the wearer's natural movements of her head into flowing patterns of light toward gravity.
Robotic Wheelchair Easy to Move and Communicate with Companions
We demonstrate our robotic wheelchair able to move alongside a companion. You can ride on and try to control the robotic wheelchair! \
汇(Hui)
Approach the garment and experience its response.
GaussBits: Magnetic Tangible Bits for Portable and Occlusion-Free Near-Surface Interactions
This work presents a system of the passive magnetic tangible designs that enables occlusion-free tangible interactions in the near-surface space of \ portable displays.
Permulin: Personal In- and Output on Interactive Surfaces
We showcase Permulin, a novel interactive surface prototype enabling users to utilize the entire horizontal surface for personal in- and output simultaneously.
Mind Pool: Encouraging Self-Reflection through Ambiguous Bio-Feedback
Mind Pool is a Brain-Computer Interface artwork providing real-time feedback of brain activity to encourage sustained interactions and self-reflection through motivating participants to relate ambiguous feedback with their thoughts.
Muscle-Propelled Force Feedback: Bringing Force Feedback to Mobile Devices using Electrical Stimulation
Muscle-propelled Force Feedback electrically stimulates the user’s forearm muscles via four electrodes, causing the user to involuntarily tilt the device. As he is countering this force, he perceives force feedback.
Libmapper (A Library for Connecting Things)
We introduce and demonstrate libmapper, a software library and protocol for providing network-enabled discovery and connectivity of real-time control signals.
BRAVO: A BRAin Virtual Operator For Education Exploiting Brain-Computer Interfaces
BRAVO is a software for content visualization in a mobile e-learning context. It makes use of a commercial BCI to detect the user’s brain activity and customize the contents proposed.
Can You Handle It? Bimanual Techniques for Browsing Media Collections on Touchscreen Tablets
Experience a compelling and continuous interaction for browsing 'your stuff' in its entirety. Scroll using the rear-mounted dial and accelerate using the front mounted pressure sensor.
The Space Between the Notes: Adding Expressive Pitch Control to the Piano Keyboard
Attendees are invited to try a new musical keyboard incorporating capacitive touch sensing. Vibrato and pitch bends are easily played by moving the fingers on the key surfaces.
From Codes to Patterns: Designing Interactive Decoration for Tableware
Through collaboration with ceramic designers we created aesthetic decorative patterns for tableware that contain multiple embedded visual codes hidden within them and a mobile app to enhance a dining experience.
The Music Room
The Music Room is an installation that enables everybody to experience music composition. Visitors can manipulate an original music by interacting with each other in the room.
Demonstrating PIXEE: Pictures, Interaction and Emotional Expression
PIXEE promotes social, social media. Your images (#CHI2013) become part of an interactive display. Sentiment analysis and an emotional self-expression interface invite an affective mapping of CHI2013.
LaserOrigami: Laser-Cutting 3D Objects
LaserOrigami is a rapid prototyping system that produces 3D objects using a laser cutter. LaserOrigami is substantially faster than 3D-printing and \ unlike traditional laser cutting it requires no manual assembly.
constructable: Interactive Construction of Functional Mechanical Devices
constructable is an interactive system based on a laser-cutter. Users interact by drafting directly on the workpiece using hand-held laser pointers. constructable tracks the pointer, beautifies its path, and cuts.
Enhancing Saltiness with Cathodal Current
Fries can taste saltier without adding salt. \ Weak cathodal current inhibits salty tastes. And saltiness recovers/increases after the release of current. We propose a saltiness enhancer that uses this phenomenon. \
Touchbugs: Actuated Tangibles on Multi-Touch Tables
The interaction space of the Touchbugs consists of its movement on an interactive surface or conventional table and of direct gestural interaction.
Information Capacity of Full-body Movements
Presents new metric for information capacity in full-body movement. Come and try how high throughputs you can achieve!
Gravity Well: Underwater Play
Gravity Well: Underwater play systems engaging human-aquatic movement interactions through water aquabatics and smart underwater robotic "Exploration Fish".
4 Design Themes for Skateboarding
We explore how to design interactive technologies to enhance the experience of skateboarding, providing thought provoking insights into \ how technology can have value beyond the context of performance focused \ sports.
Surface Tension
An installation abstracting human expression of pain into disembodied form, gesticulations tracing shapes out of a canvas revealing the expressive quality of hands articulating a personal experience of pain.
Long Living Chair
The Long Living Chair was designed to embody important slow technology concepts. Its semi-hidden display shows how many times it is used over the course of 96 years.
Gesture Output: Eyes-Free Output Using a Force Feedback Touch Surface
We propose using spatial gestures not only for input but also for output. Analogous to gesture input, gesture output moves the user’s finger in a gesture, which the user then recognizes.
TouchViz: (Multi)Touching Multivariate Data
TouchViz is a multi-touch interactive information visualization system. Users can employ a variety of physically grounded, force-based tools to explore data in order to find complex, multidimensional trends.
The CHI 2013 Interactive Schedule
The CHI’13 Interactive Schedule helps attendees navigate the wealth of video preview content in order to identify events they would like to attend.
Dirty Tangible Interfaces — Expressive Control of Computers with True Grit
Create music and graphic animation by plowing through granular or liquid interaction material, molding sonic landscapes in the Dirty Tangible Interface (DIRTI).
Enhancing One-handed Website Operation on Touchscreen Mobile Phones
A JavaScript framework that transforms input for form elements, media control and page access on the fly into a thumb-friendly interaction model.
Metaphone: An Artistic Exploration of Biofeedback and Machine Aesthetics
The Metaphone is an interactive art piece that transforms biosensor data extracted from participants into colorful, evocative perceivable visual patterns on a big canvas.
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers – an Interface for Playful Language Exploration
t-words allow users to playfully explore sounds, words and sentences while engaging collaboratively. Users can record and then playback audio, as well as changing the audio sequences, creating new audio combinations.
MubuFunkScatShare: Gestural Energy and Shared Interactive Music
MubuFunkScatShare is a collaborative performance featuring a musician playing guitar, scatting and beatboxing. Multiple visitors can participate in the performance, re-performing live-recorded musical phrases by shaking and waving mobile phones.
PaperTab: An Electronic Paper Computer with Multiple Large Flexible Electrophoretic Displays
Papertab is a paper computer with multiple 10.7” functional touch sensitive flexible electrophoretic displays. Papertab merges the benefits of working with electronic documents with the tangibility of paper documents.
Posture Training With Real-time Visual Feedback
Improve your standing posture by visiting this interactive demonstration of two different real-time visual posture feedback systems.
Bubble Popper: Body Contact in Digital Games
Bubble Popper is a 2-player exertion game in which players push, block and compete in popping as many projected bubbles as they can within 60 seconds.
The Voice Harvester: An Interactive Installation
The Voice Harvester is an exploratory interactive installation that embodies human voice in physical materials. Sound input is amplified through speakers connected to a thin, flexible membrane agitating the material.
The Throat III - Disforming Operatic Voices Through a Novel Interactive Instrument
The Throat III is a tool for opera-singers to dynamically disform, change and accompany their voices through gestures by one hand.
Gracoli: A Graphical Command Line User Interface
Gracoli is a graphical command line interface that takes advantage of both text-based interface and graphical user interface to provide better user experience. Visit www.gracoli.com for demo.
Pursuits: Eye-Based Interaction with Moving Targets
Pursuits is a new way to interact with eye-based interfaces. By exploiting the movement of targets, it creates a potential for interaction with dynamic interfaces.
MARSUI: Malleable Audio-Reactive Shape-retaining User Interface
MARSUI is a deformable hardware prototype that can recognize its own shape. It is designed to investigate the role of interactive auditory feedback as a guide to create specific shapes.
SimpleTones: A Collaborative Sound Controller System for Non-Musicians
SimpleTones is an interactive sound system that allows non-musicians to experience improvisation as a group, without the need of previous musical training.
Cobi: Communitysourcing Large-Scale Conference Scheduling
Cobi engages the entire CHI community in planning CHI. Cobi elicits community members' preferences and constraints, and provides a scheduling tool empowering organizers to take informed actions toward improving the schedule.
SideWays: A Gaze Interface for Spontaneous Interaction with Situated Displays
Presents a system that uses light weight computer vision techniques for calibration-free eye tracking. The system enables hands-free spontaneous interaction with situated displays using eye gaze.
AutoGami: A Low-cost Rapid Prototyping Toolkit for Automated Movable Paper Craft
AutoGami is a toolkit for designing automated movable paper craft. It has hardware and software components allowing users to create automated movable paper craft without any prerequisite knowledge of electronics.
TraInAb: A Solution Based on Tangible and Distributed User Interfaces to Improve Cognitive Disabilities
TraInAb (Training Intellectual Abilities) is an interactive and collaborative set of games based on Tangible and Distributed User Interfaces designed to stimulate people with intellectual disabilities