PickCells: A Physically Reconfigurable Cell-composed Touchscreen

2019. Alix Goguey, Cameron Steer, Andres Lucero, Laurence Nigay, Deepak Sahoo, Celine Coutrix, Anne Roudaut, Sriram Subramanian, Yutaka Tokuda, Timothy Neate, Jennifer Pearson, Simon Robinson & Matt Jones
Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Abstract

Touchscreens are the predominant medium for interactions with digital services; however, their current fixed form factor narrows the scope for rich physical interactions by limiting interaction possibilities to a single, planar surface. In this paper we introduce the concept of PickCells, a fully re-configurable device concept composed of cells, that breaks the mould of rigid screens and explores a modular system that affords rich sets of tangible interactions and novel across-device relationships. Through a series of co-design activities -- involving HCI experts and potential end-users of such systems -- we synthesised a design space aimed at inspiring future research, giving researchers and designers a framework in which to explore modular screen interactions. The design space we propose unifies existing works on modular touch surfaces under a general framework and broadens horizons by opening up unexplored spaces providing new interaction possibilities. In this paper, we present the PickCells concept, a design space of modular touch surfaces, and propose a toolkit for quick scenario prototyping.

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Citation

Goguey, A., Steer, C., Lucero, A., Nigay, L., Sahoo, D. R., Coutrix, C., … Jones, M. (2019). Pickcells: a physically reconfigurable cell-composed touchscreen. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–14). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300503, doi:10.1145/3290605.3300503

BibTeX

@inproceedings{10.1145/3290605.3300503,
author = {Goguey, Alix and Steer, Cameron and Lucero, Andres and Nigay, Laurence and Sahoo, Deepak Ranjan and Coutrix, Celine and Roudaut, Anne and Subramanian, Sriram and Tokuda, Yutaka and Neate, Timothy and Pearson, Jennifer and Robinson, Simon and Jones, Matt},
title = {PickCells: A Physically Reconfigurable Cell-composed Touchscreen},
year = {2019},
isbn = {9781450359702},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300503},
doi = {10.1145/3290605.3300503},
abstract = {Touchscreens are the predominant medium for interactions with digital services; however, their current fixed form factor narrows the scope for rich physical interactions by limiting interaction possibilities to a single, planar surface. In this paper we introduce the concept of PickCells, a fully re-configurable device concept composed of cells, that breaks the mould of rigid screens and explores a modular system that affords rich sets of tangible interactions and novel across-device relationships. Through a series of co-design activities -- involving HCI experts and potential end-users of such systems -- we synthesised a design space aimed at inspiring future research, giving researchers and designers a framework in which to explore modular screen interactions. The design space we propose unifies existing works on modular touch surfaces under a general framework and broadens horizons by opening up unexplored spaces providing new interaction possibilities. In this paper, we present the PickCells concept, a design space of modular touch surfaces, and propose a toolkit for quick scenario prototyping.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
pages = {1–14},
numpages = {14},
keywords = {touchscreen, shape changing, modular, interface},
location = {Glasgow, Scotland Uk},
series = {CHI '19}
}