skip to main content
10.1145/2076354.2076368acmconferencesArticle/Chapter ViewAbstractPublication PagesissConference Proceedingsconference-collections
research-article

HATs: interact using height-adjustable tangibles in tabletop interfaces

Published: 13 November 2011 Publication History

Abstract

We present Height-Adjustable Tangibles (HATs) for table-top interaction. HATs are active tangibles with 4 degrees of freedom that are capable of moving, rotating, and changing height. By adding height as an additional dimension for manipulation and representation, HATs offer more freedom to users than ordinary tangibles. HATs support bidirectional interaction, enabling them to reflect changes in the digital model via active visual feedback and to assist users via haptic feedback. A number of scenarios for using HATs are proposed, including interaction with complex and dependent models and applying HATs as tangible indicator widgets. We then introduce the implementation of HAT prototypes, for which we utilize motor-driven potentiometers to realize bidirectional interaction via the height dimension.

Supplementary Material

JPG File (p71-mi.jpg)
MP4 File (p71-mi.mp4)

References

[1]
Blackshaw, M., DeVincenzi, A., Lakatos, D., Leithinger, D., and Ishii, H. Recompose: direct and gestural interaction with an actuated surface. In Proc. CHI EA '11, pages 1237--1242, New York, NY, USA, 2011. ACM.
[2]
Brave, S., Ishii, H., and Dahley, A. Tangible interfaces for remote collaboration and communication. In Proc. of CSCW '98, pages 169--178, Seattle, WA, USA, 1998. ACM.
[3]
Kaltenbrunner, M., Jorda, S., Geiger, G., and Alonso, M. The reacTable*: A Collaborative Musical Instrument. In Proc. WETICE '06, pages 406--411, Manchester, UK, 2006. IEEE.
[4]
Kojima, M., Sugimoto, M., Nakamura, A., Tomita, M., Inami, M., and Nii, H. Augmented Coliseum: An Augmented Game Environment with Small Vehicles. In Proc. TABLETOP '06, pages 3--8, Washington, DC, USA, 2006. IEEE.
[5]
Krzywinski, A., Mi, H., Chen, W., and Sugimoto, M. RoboTable: A Table top Framework for Tangible Interaction with Robots in a Mixed Reality. In Proc. ACE '09, pages 107--114, Athens, Greece, 2009. ACM.
[6]
Leithinger, D. and Ishii, H. Relief: a scalable actuated shape display. In Proc. TEI '10, pages 221--222, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2010. ACM.
[7]
Marquardt, N., Nacenta, M. A., Young, J. E., Carpendale, S., Greenberg, S., and Sharlin, E. The Haptic Tabletop Puck: Tactile Feedback for Interactive Tabletops. In Proc. ITS'09, pages 85--92, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2009. ACM.
[8]
Pangaro, G., Maynes-Aminzade, D., and Ishii, H. The actuated workbench: computer-controlled actuation in tabletop tangible interfaces. In Proc. UIST '02, pages 181--190, Paris, France, 2002. ACM.
[9]
Pedersen, E. W. and Hornbæk, K. Tangible bots: interaction with active tangibles in tabletop interfaces. In Proc. CHI '11, pages 2975--2984, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2011. ACM.
[10]
Poupyrev, I., Nashida, T, Maruyama, S., Rekimoto, J., and Yamaji, Y. Lumen: interactive visual and shape display for calm computing. In Proc. SIGGRAPH '04, page 17, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2004. ACM.
[11]
Richter, J., Thomas, B. H., Sugimoto, M., and Inami, M. Remote active tangible interactions. In Proc. TEI '07, pages 39--42, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, 2007. ACM.
[12]
Rosenfeld, D., Zawadzki, M., Sudol, J., and Perlin, K. Physical objects as bidirectional user interface elements. Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, 24(1):44--49, 2004.
[13]
Ullmer, B. and Ishii, H. Emerging frameworks for tangible user interfaces. IBM Syst. J., 39(3):915--931, 2000.
[14]
Weiss, M., Schwarz, F., Jakubowski, S., and Borchers, J. Madgets: actuating widgets on interactive table-tops. In Proc. UIST' 10, pages 293--302, New York, NY, USA, 2010. ACM.
[15]
Weiss, M., Wagner, J., Jansen, Y, Jennings, R., Khoshabeh, R., Hollan, J. D., and Borchers, J. SLAP widgets: bridging the gap between virtual and physical controls on tabletops. In Proc. CHI '09, pages 481--490, Boston, MA, USA, 2009. ACM.

Cited By

View all
  • (2019)ShapeBots: Shape-changing Swarm RobotsProceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology10.1145/3332165.3347911(493-505)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2019
  • (2019)Investigating Active Tangibles and Augmented Reality for Creativity Support in Remote CollaborationDesign Thinking Research10.1007/978-3-030-28960-7_12(185-200)Online publication date: 26-Sep-2019
  • (2017)Critiquing Physical Prototypes for a Remote AudienceProceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems10.1145/3064663.3064722(1295-1307)Online publication date: 10-Jun-2017
  • Show More Cited By

Index Terms

  1. HATs: interact using height-adjustable tangibles in tabletop interfaces

    Recommendations

    Comments

    Information & Contributors

    Information

    Published In

    cover image ACM Conferences
    ITS '11: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
    November 2011
    295 pages
    ISBN:9781450308717
    DOI:10.1145/2076354
    Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

    Sponsors

    Publisher

    Association for Computing Machinery

    New York, NY, United States

    Publication History

    Published: 13 November 2011

    Permissions

    Request permissions for this article.

    Check for updates

    Author Tags

    1. active tangibles
    2. haptic I/O
    3. height-adjustable interface
    4. tangible user interface

    Qualifiers

    • Research-article

    Conference

    ITS'11
    Sponsor:
    ITS'11: Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
    November 13 - 16, 2011
    Kobe, Japan

    Acceptance Rates

    Overall Acceptance Rate 119 of 418 submissions, 28%

    Contributors

    Other Metrics

    Bibliometrics & Citations

    Bibliometrics

    Article Metrics

    • Downloads (Last 12 months)12
    • Downloads (Last 6 weeks)1
    Reflects downloads up to 17 Jan 2025

    Other Metrics

    Citations

    Cited By

    View all
    • (2019)ShapeBots: Shape-changing Swarm RobotsProceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology10.1145/3332165.3347911(493-505)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2019
    • (2019)Investigating Active Tangibles and Augmented Reality for Creativity Support in Remote CollaborationDesign Thinking Research10.1007/978-3-030-28960-7_12(185-200)Online publication date: 26-Sep-2019
    • (2017)Critiquing Physical Prototypes for a Remote AudienceProceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems10.1145/3064663.3064722(1295-1307)Online publication date: 10-Jun-2017
    • (2016)ZooidsProceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology10.1145/2984511.2984547(97-109)Online publication date: 16-Oct-2016
    • (2016)Exploring the Layered Use of Transparent Display on a Large Tabletop DisplayProceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2851581.2892297(2555-2562)Online publication date: 7-May-2016
    • (2015)G-raffProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2702613.2732488(171-171)Online publication date: 18-Apr-2015
    • (2015)G-raffProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2702123.2702444(4161-4164)Online publication date: 18-Apr-2015
    • (2013)FillablesCHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2468356.2468732(2129-2138)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2013

    View Options

    Login options

    View options

    PDF

    View or Download as a PDF file.

    PDF

    eReader

    View online with eReader.

    eReader

    Media

    Figures

    Other

    Tables

    Share

    Share

    Share this Publication link

    Share on social media