Demonstrating Shape-Kit: A Design Toolkit for Crafting On-Body Expressive HapticsShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2025, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2025Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
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” metaphor. The Shape-Kit analog tool can transduce and amplify (or minify) human touch behaviors into dynamic pin-based haptic sensations through a flexible and long transducer, enabling free-form sensorial exploration of touch across the body. An ad-hoc tracking module captures and digitizes these patterns, while our graphical user interface includes real-time 3D visualization, recording, tuning, and playback functionalities. To showcase a full design cycle, we built a programmable shape display for tangible playback. This demonstration invites attendees to experience how the analog crafting method offers an intuitive entry point for collaborative touch prototyping while excelling at uncovering subtle nuances that shape touch quality and how touch digitization enables touch recording and playback while enhancing reflective creation.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2025.
Keywords [en]
Haptic Design Toolkit, Crafting Haptics, On-body Expressive Haptics, Design Research, Passive Shape Display, Computer Vision, Soma Design, Collaborative Haptic Design, Sensorial Exploration
National Category
Human Computer Interaction
Research subject
Human-computer Interaction
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-365763DOI: 10.1145/3706599.3721280ISI: 001496972000902Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105005746172OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-365763DiVA, id: diva2:1978945
Conference
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2025, Yokohama, Japan, 26 April 2025- 1 May 2025
Projects
ERC, Intimate Touch, 101043637Army Research Office contract number W911NF22C0082Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Administration (IARPA)
Note
QC 20250701
2025-06-292025-06-292025-12-08Bibliographically approved