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MagCubes: Magnetically Driven Tangible Widgets for Children

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Sungjae Hwang,

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CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

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MagCubes are tangible widgets for children that work both on and around mobile devices. The advantage of this technique is that it is simple, battery-free, and inexpensive because it solely relies on a magnetometer, which is already installed in modern smart devices. To motivate our approach, we suggest various applications using a MagGetz toolkit. The first application is a board game with a magnetic dice. With this application, users can input numbers by placing the dice in the specific area after throwing it. The second application is a simple drawer with a color picker cube. The third application is a math learning game with five different sizes of cubes. (The strength of the magnetic force is proportional to the size of the cubes).

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Hwang, S., Ahn, M., Wohn, K. W. MagGetz: customizable passive tangible controllers on and around conventional mobile devices. In Proc. of UIST, 2013

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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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Huawei, USA
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Yonsei University, Korea
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Microsoft Research, USA
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KAIST, Korea

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