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AcuTable: A Touch-Enabled, Actuated Tangible User Interface

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Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation (ArtsIT 2016, DLI 2016)

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In this paper we describe AcuTable, a new tangible user interface. AcuTable is a shapeable surface that employs capacitive touch sensors. The goal of AcuTable was to enable the exploration of the capabilities of such haptic interface and its applications. We describe its design and implementation details, together with its strengths, limitations, and possible future applications.

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  1. Aalborg University Esbjerg, Niels Bohrs Vej 8, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Simon Dibbern, Kasper Vestergaard Rasmussen, Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo & Michael Boelstoft Holte

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Correspondence to Michael Boelstoft Holte .

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  1. Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology (CREATE), Aalborg University, Aalborg/Esbjerg, Denmark

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  2. Department of Learning and Philosophy, The Faculty of Humanities, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

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Dibbern, S., Rasmussen, K.V., Ortiz-Arroyo, D., Holte, M.B. (2017). AcuTable: A Touch-Enabled, Actuated Tangible User Interface. In: Brooks, A., Brooks, E. (eds) Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation. ArtsIT DLI 2016 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 196. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55834-9_37

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