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PaperPulse: An Integrated Approach to Fabricating Interactive Paper

Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

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We present PaperPulse, a design and fabrication approach that enables designers to produce standalone interactive paper artifacts by augmenting them with electronics. With PaperPulse, users overlay visual designs with widgets provided in the design tool. PaperPulse provides three families of widgets, designed for smooth integration with paper, for a total of 20 different interactive components. We also contribute a demonstration and recording approach, Pulsation, that allows specifying interaction logic. Using the final design and the recorded Pulsation logic, PaperPulse generates layered electronic circuit designs, and code that can be deployed on a microcontroller. By following automatically generated assembly instructions, designers can seamlessly integrate the microcontroller and widgets in the final paper artifact.

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    CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    April 2015
    2546 pages
    ISBN:9781450331463
    DOI:10.1145/2702613
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    1. PBD
    2. design tools
    3. fabrication
    4. paper electronics
    5. paper-crafts
    6. tangible interfaces

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    April 18 - 23, 2015
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