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Mood fern: exploring shape transformations in reactive environments

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We present Mood Fern: digital flora which responds to touch. Depending on the length and intensity of the touch a subset of leaves physically react. The leaves respond on a spectrum of slight oscillation, imitating the effects of swaying in a slight breeze, to complete deformation, as if they were physically trying to respond in a similar manner. Mood Fern's reference to nature highlights its appeal to calm computing. Painted capacitive sensors mimic the appearance of leaf veins and Flexinol SMA wire is used to actuate The Mood Fern's paper structures.

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      ACE '14: Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
      November 2014
      422 pages
      ISBN:9781450329453
      DOI:10.1145/2663806
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      1. interactive art
      2. kinetic user interface
      3. organic user interface
      4. paper computing
      5. tangible interface

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      • (2017)Finding Common GroundProceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3025453.3025808(3293-3315)Online publication date: 2-May-2017
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