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Shaping Compliance Inducing Haptic Illusion of Compliance in Different Shapes with Electrotactile Grains Abstract Compliance, the degree of displacement under applied force, is pivotal...more

Flextiles Designing Customisable Shape-Change in Textiles with SMA-Actuated Smocking Patterns Abstract Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) afford the seamless integration of shape-changing behaviour...more

WRLKit: Computational Design of Personalized Wearable Robotic Limbs Abstract Wearable robotic limbs (WRLs) augment human capabilities through robotic structures that attach to the user'...more

Double-Sided Tactile Interactions for Grasping in Virtual Reality Abstract For grasping, tactile stimuli to multiple fingertips are crucial for realistic shape rendering and precise man...more

Biohybrid Devices: Prototyping Interactive Devices with Growable Materials Abstract Living bio-materials are increasingly used in HCI for fabricating objects by growing. However, how to...more

Design and Fabrication of Body-Based Interfaces (Demo of Saarland HCI Lab) This Interactivity shows live demonstrations of our lab's most recent work on body-based interfaces. The soft, curv...more

I Need a Third Arm! Eliciting Body-based Interactions with a Wearable Robotic Arm Abstract Wearable robotic arms (WRA) open up a unique interaction space that closely integrates the use...more

Handheld Tools Unleashed A Mixed-Initiative Physical Sketching with a Robotic Printer Abstract Personal fabrication has mostly focused on handheld tools as embodied extensions of the user, ...more

Interactive Bioplastics A DIY approach for composing soft interactive devices from bio-based and bio-degradable materials. Abstract Designers and makers are increasingly interested in lev...more

Next Steps in Epidermal Computing Opportunities and Challenges For Soft On-Skin Devices Abstract Skin is a promising interaction medium and has been widely explored for mobile, and e...more

Print-A-Sketch A Handheld Printer for Physical Sketching of Circuits and Sensors on Everyday Surfaces We present Print-A-Sketch, an open-source handheld printer prototype for sketching circuit...more

Computational Design and Optimization of Electro-Physiological Sensors Abstract Electro-physiological sensing devices are becoming increasingly common in diverse applications. However, ...more

Weirding Haptics In-Situ Prototyping of Vibrotactile Feedback in Virtual Reality through Vocalization Effective haptic feedback in virtual reality (VR) is an essential element for cre...more

bARefoot Generating Virtual Materials using Motion Coupled Vibration in Shoes Many features of materials can be experienced through tactile cues, even using one’s feet. For example, o...more

Soft Inkjet Circuits Rapid Multi-Material Fabrication of Soft Circuits Using a Commodity Inkjet Printer Despite the increasing popularity of soft interactive devices, their fabrication remains...more

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Tacttoo A Thin and Feel-Through Tattoo for On-Skin Tactile Output Tacttoo is a feel-through interface for electro-tactile output on the user’s skin. Integrated in a temporary tattoo with a t...more

SkinMarks Enabling Interactions on Body Landmarks Using Conformal Skin Electronics The body provides many recognizable landmarks due to the underlying skeletal structure and variations in s...more

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iSkin Flexible, Stretchable and Visually Customizable On-Body Touch Sensors for Mobile Computing We propose iSkin, a novel class of skin-worn sensors for touch input on the body. iSkin is a ve...more

Foldio Digital Fabrication of Interactive and ShapeChanging Objects With Foldable Printed Electronics Foldios are foldable interactive objects with embedded input sensing and output capabil...more

More Than Touch Understanding How People Use Skin as an Input Surface for Mobile Computing This paper contributes results from an empirical study of on-skin input, an emerging technique for ...more

PrintScreen Fabricating Highly Customizable Thin-film Touch-Displays PrintScreen is an enabling technology for digital fabrication of customized flexible displays using thin-film electr...more

Flexpad Highly Flexible Bending Interactions for Projected Handheld Displays Flexpad is an interactive system that combines a depth camera and a projector to transform sheets ...more

Pen-and-Paper User Interfaces Integrating printed and digital documents Abstract Even at the beginning of the 21st century, we are far from becoming paperless. Pen and paper is still the o...more

Algorithmic Mechanism Design University of Freiburg 2005-2006 Abstract Computer systems with decentralized control structures, such as the internet or peer-to-peer and grid computing, ar...more