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Demonstrating poimo as Inflatable, Inclusive Mobility Devices with a Soft Input Interface

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SIGGRAPH '22: ACM SIGGRAPH 2022 Emerging Technologies

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Demonstrating poimo as Inflatable, Inclusive Mobility Devices with a Soft Input Interface

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In this demo, we showcase poimo, a series of POrtable and Inflatable MObility devices made of a balloon-like soft material called drop-stitch fabric. Poimo has two merits: (1) inflatability of a soft and lightweight body allowing users to deflate and carry it on a small scale and (2) inclusiveness enabling made-to-order design and fabrication of mobility devices for each user. As an alternative way to conventional rigid controllers, we also introduce a soft and deformable input interface to navigate a sofa-type poimo. Finally, we report two types of field studies: public users riding on two types of poimos on a flat paved road, and the authors riding on a sofa-type poimo in a traditional European environment with inclined stone-paved streets.

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Ryuma Niiyama, Hiroki Sato, Kazzmasa Tsujimura, Koya Narumi, Young ah Seong, Ryosuke Yamamura, Yasuaki Kakehi, and Yoshihiro Kawahara. 2020. Poimo: Portable and Inflatable Mobility Devices Customizable for Personal Physical Characteristics. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 912–923. https://doi.org/10.1145/3379337.3415894

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Hiroki Sato, Young ah Seong, Ryosuke Yamamura, Hiromasa Hayashi, Katsuhiro Hata, Hisato Ogata, Ryuma Niiyama, and Yoshihiro Kawahara. 2020. Soft yet Strong Inflatable Structures for a Foldable and Portable Mobility. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(Honolulu, HI, USA) (CHI EA ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3383147

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DOI:10.1145/3532721

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