KirigamiTable: Designing for Proxemic Transitions with a Shape-Changing Tabletop

TY - GEN

T1 - KirigamiTable

T2 - CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

AU - Grønbæk, Jens Emil

AU - Rasmussen, Majken Kirkegård

AU - Halskov, Kim

AU - Petersen, Marianne Graves

PY - 2020/4/21

Y1 - 2020/4/21

N2 - A core challenge in tabletop research is to support transitions between individual activities and team work. Shape-changing tabletops open up new opportunities for addressing this challenge. However, interaction design for shape-changing furniture is in its early stages - so far, research has mainly focused on triggering shape-changes, and less on the actual interface transitions. We present KirigamiTable - a novel actuated shape-changing tabletop for supporting transitions in collaborative work. Our work builds on the concept of Proxemic Transitions, considering the dynamic interplay between social interactions, interactive technologies and furniture. With KirigamiTable, we demonstrate the potential of interactions for proxemic transitions that combine transformation of shape and digital contents. We highlight challenges for shape-changing tabletops: initiating shape and content transformations, cooperative control, and anticipating shape-change. To address these challenges, we propose a set of novel interaction techniques, including shape-first and content-first interaction, cooperative gestures, and physical and digital preview of shape-changes.

AB - A core challenge in tabletop research is to support transitions between individual activities and team work. Shape-changing tabletops open up new opportunities for addressing this challenge. However, interaction design for shape-changing furniture is in its early stages - so far, research has mainly focused on triggering shape-changes, and less on the actual interface transitions. We present KirigamiTable - a novel actuated shape-changing tabletop for supporting transitions in collaborative work. Our work builds on the concept of Proxemic Transitions, considering the dynamic interplay between social interactions, interactive technologies and furniture. With KirigamiTable, we demonstrate the potential of interactions for proxemic transitions that combine transformation of shape and digital contents. We highlight challenges for shape-changing tabletops: initiating shape and content transformations, cooperative control, and anticipating shape-change. To address these challenges, we propose a set of novel interaction techniques, including shape-first and content-first interaction, cooperative gestures, and physical and digital preview of shape-changes.

KW - collaboration

KW - interaction techniques

KW - interactive tabletops

KW - proxemics

KW - shape-changing interfaces

KW - transitions

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85091323069

U2 - 10.1145/3313831.3376834

DO - 10.1145/3313831.3376834

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-4503-6708-0

BT - CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

CY - New York

Y2 - 25 April 2020 through 30 April 2020

ER -