PhotoelasticTouch: Transparent Organic User Interface using Photoelasticity

Organization: The Univ. of Electro-Communications
Authors: Toshiki Sato, Taro Tokui, Hideki Koike, Kentaro Fukuchi
Abstract: PhotoelasticTouch is a tabletop system designed to facilitate touch-based interaction with real objects made from transparent elastic material. The elastic material provides a realistic haptic interface, which when combined with the visual content displayed on the LCD tabletop, enables a coupling of the physical world and digital content. The system utilizes the photoelastic properties of transparent rubber to detect when a user pushes, pulls, or pinches the object, while the LCD provides appropriate visual feedback in accordance with the stress applied to the rubber.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Tabletop
• Touch Interaction
• Photoelasticity
• Organic User Interface
• Tangible
• Virtual Reality
• Laval Virtual
• Réalité Virtuelle