Tuesday, September 10, 2013

LookingOut2: Ding

Project: The Haptic Tabletop Puck (2009)

By: Nicolai Marquardt, Miguel A. Nacenta, James E. Young, Sheelagh Carpendale, Saul Greenberg, Ehud Sharlin
Keywords: haptic feedback, computer vision




  
The Haptic Tabletop Puck is an interactive device aiming to provide a haptic feedback for people. By embedding a rod, servo and a brake in a wooden box, combining with computer vision technology, people can feel a sense of friction, height, texture and malleability of digital objects.

I like this project for its simplicity to achieve well build tactile feedback. It extracts the feedback with the forms of friction, height and malleability. With a tangible object to move in a digital display, it will bring much interesting tactile feeling for people.

Project: Touch trace mirror 
By: Johanna Schmeer, Tom Baffi
Keywords: remote communication, daily objects sensing



Touch trace mirror is a device for remote people (especially for lovers) to communicate with each other. By writing something in the mirror in a place, the other side of the mirror will appear a signal indicating this message. When the message is re-drawn by remote person, the pattern will flash.


Similar to The Haptic Tabletop Puck, this device is also not complicated to be implemented. I like its idea to make daily objects as a tool for people communication or just for fun.

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