Rubikon: a highly reconfigurable device for advanced interaction

2014. Anne Roudaut, Diego Martinez, Amir Chohan, Vlad-Stefan Otrocol, Rupert Cobbe-Warburton, Max Steele & Ioana-Madalina Patrichi
CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Abstract

Rubikon is a device that allows users to interact with common user interfaces by using an augmented Rubik's Cube that senses users' actions and displays information on each tile. Rubikon has advantages over the traditional mouse or the mid-air approach such as high number of degrees of freedom and implicit haptic feedback when rotating the sides. We present our first prototype that senses rotations and has a button with a RGB LED on each side. We also present four applications we developed for it. We then show the results of a preliminary study assessing the potential of Rubikon as an interactive device.

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Citation

Roudaut, A., Martinez, D., Chohan, A., Otrocol, V.-S., Cobbe-Warburton, R., Steele, M., & Patrichi, I.-M. (2014). Rubikon: a highly reconfigurable device for advanced interaction. CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1327–1332). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581275, doi:10.1145/2559206.2581275

BibTeX

@inproceedings{10.1145/2559206.2581275,
author = {Roudaut, Anne and Martinez, Diego and Chohan, Amir and Otrocol, Vlad-Stefan and Cobbe-Warburton, Rupert and Steele, Max and Patrichi, Ioana-Madalina},
title = {Rubikon: a highly reconfigurable device for advanced interaction},
year = {2014},
isbn = {9781450324748},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581275},
doi = {10.1145/2559206.2581275},
abstract = {Rubikon is a device that allows users to interact with common user interfaces by using an augmented Rubik's Cube that senses users' actions and displays information on each tile. Rubikon has advantages over the traditional mouse or the mid-air approach such as high number of degrees of freedom and implicit haptic feedback when rotating the sides. We present our first prototype that senses rotations and has a button with a RGB LED on each side. We also present four applications we developed for it. We then show the results of a preliminary study assessing the potential of Rubikon as an interactive device.},
booktitle = {CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
pages = {1327–1332},
numpages = {6},
keywords = {augmented rubik's cube, controllere, haptic feedback, i/o device, reconfigurable},
location = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
series = {CHI EA '14}
}