Daniel Leithinger

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Shape-Kit: A Design Toolkit for Crafting On-Body Expressive Haptics

Driven by the vision of everyday haptics, the HCI community is advocating for “design touch first” and investigating “how to touch well.” However, a gap remains between the exploratory nature of haptic design and technical reproducibility. We present Shape-Kit, a hybrid design toolkit embodying our “crafting haptics”…

CHI '255th+ AuthorCollaborative Learning & Peer Teaching +2

Children using Tabletop Telepresence Robots for Collaboration: A Longitudinal Case Study of Hybrid and Online Intergenerational Participatory Design

Improving telepresence for children expands educational opportunities and connects faraway family. Yet, research about child-centered physical telepresence systems (tangible interfaces for telepresence) remains sparse, despite established benefits of tangible interaction for children. To address this gap, we collabora…

CHI '23CorrespondingHaptic Wearables +2

TactorBots: A Haptic Design Toolkit for Out-of-lab Exploration of Emotional Robotic Touch

Emerging research has demonstrated the viability of emotional communication through haptic technology inspired by interpersonal touch. However, the meaning-making of artificial touch remains ambiguous and contextual. We see this ambiguity caused by robotic touch’s "otherness" as an opportunity for exploring alternativ…

UIST '214th AuthorMid-Air Haptics (Ultrasonic) +2

HapticBots: Distributed Encountered-type Haptics for VR with Multiple Shape-changing Mobile Robots

HapticBots introduces a novel encountered-type haptic approach for Virtual Reality (VR) based on multiple tabletop-size shape-changing robots. These robots move on a tabletop and change their height and orientation to haptically render various surfaces and objects on-demand. Compared to previous encountered-type hapti…

DIS '21CorrespondingShape-Changing Interfaces & Soft Robotic Materials

Electriflow: Soft Electrohydraulic Building Blocks for Prototyping Shape-changing Interfaces

We present Electriflow: a new class of soft electrohydraulic actuators as building blocks for prototyping shape-changing interfaces. These actuators are silent and fast in operation and can be fabricated with commodity materials. Electriflow generates an immediate hydraulic force upon electrostatic activation without…

UIST '20CorrespondingAR Navigation & Context Awareness +1

RealitySketch: Embedding Responsive Graphics and Visualizations in AR through Dynamic Sketching

We present RealitySketch, an augmented reality interface for sketching interactive graphics and visualizations. In recent years, an increasing number of AR sketching tools enable users to draw and embed sketches in the real world. However, with the current tools, sketched contents are inherently static, floating in mi…

CHI '20CorrespondingShape-Changing Interfaces & Soft Robotic Materials +2

RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots

RoomShift is a room-scale dynamic haptic environment for virtual reality, using a small swarm of robots that can move furniture. RoomShift consists of nine shape-changing robots: Roombas with mechanical scissor lifts. These robots drive beneath a piece of furniture to lift, move and place it. By augmenting virtual sce…

UIST '19CorrespondingShape-Changing Interfaces & Soft Robotic Materials +2

ShapeBots: Shape-changing Swarm Robots

We introduce shape-changing swarm robots, a new class of systems that consist of a swarm of self-transformable robots. These robots can both individually and collectively change their shape to display information, actuate objects, act as tangible controllers, visualize data, and provide affordances. To demonstrate thi…

UIST '183rd AuthorShape-Changing Materials & 4D Printing

Dynablock: Dynamic 3D Printing for Instant and Reconstructable Shape Formation

This paper introduces Dynamic 3D Printing, a fast and reconstructable shape formation system. Dynamic 3D Printing can assemble an arbitrary three-dimensional shape from a large number of small physical elements. Also, it can disassemble the shape back to elements and reconstruct a new shape. Dynamic 3D Printing combin…

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