Printgets: an Open-Source Toolbox for Designing Vibrotactile Widgets with Industrial-Grade Printed Actuators and Sensors - International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design
Conference Papers Year : 2020

Printgets: an Open-Source Toolbox for Designing Vibrotactile Widgets with Industrial-Grade Printed Actuators and Sensors

Abstract

New technologies for printing sensors and actuators combine the flexibility of interface layouts of touchscreens with localized vibrotactile feedback, but their fabrication still requires industrial-grade facilities. Until these technologies become easily replicable, interaction designers need material for ideation. We propose an open-source hardware and software toolbox providing maker-grade tools for iterative design of vibrotactile widgets with industrial-grade printed sensors and actuators. Our hardware toolbox provides a mechanical structure to clamp and stretch printed sheets, and electronic boards to drive sensors and actuators. Our software toolbox expands the design space of haptic interaction techniques by reusing the wide palette of available audio processing algorithms to generate real-time vibrotactile signals. We validate our toolbox with the implementation of three exemplar interface elements with tactile feedback: buttons, sliders, touchpads.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
frisson20.pdf (4.4 Mo) Télécharger le fichier
thumb.png (95.11 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origin Files produced by the author(s)

Dates and versions

hal-02901202 , version 1 (16-07-2020)
hal-02901202 , version 2 (05-08-2020)

Identifiers

  • HAL Id : hal-02901202 , version 2

Cite

Christian Frisson, Julien Decaudin, Mario Sanz Lopez, Thomas Pietrzak. Printgets: an Open-Source Toolbox for Designing Vibrotactile Widgets with Industrial-Grade Printed Actuators and Sensors. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID 2020), Aug 2020, Montreal, Canada. ⟨hal-02901202v2⟩
320 View
194 Download

Share

More