TipTrap: a co-located direct manipulation technique for acoustically levitated content
Fecha
2022Autor
Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena
Versión
Versión aceptada / Onetsi den bertsioa
Impacto
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10.1145/3526113.3545675
Resumen
Acoustic levitation has emerged as a promising approach for mid-air displays, by using multiple levitated particles as 3D voxels, cloth and thread props, or high-speed tracer particles, under the promise of creating 3D displays that users can see, hear and feel with their bare eyes, ears and hands. However, interaction with this mid-air content always occurred at a distance, since external object ...
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Acoustic levitation has emerged as a promising approach for mid-air displays, by using multiple levitated particles as 3D voxels, cloth and thread props, or high-speed tracer particles, under the promise of creating 3D displays that users can see, hear and feel with their bare eyes, ears and hands. However, interaction with this mid-air content always occurred at a distance, since external objects in the display volume (e.g. user’s hands) can disturb the acoustic fields and make the particles fall. This paper proposes TipTrap, a co-located direct manipulation technique for acoustically levitated particles. TipTrap leverages the reflection of ultrasound on the users’ skin and employs a closed-loop system to create functional acoustic traps 2.1 mm below the fingertips, and addresses its 3 basic stages: selection, manipulation and deselection. We use Finite-Differences Time Domain (FDTD) simulations to explain the principles enabling TipTrap, and explore how finger reflections and user strategies influence the quality of the traps (e.g. approaching direction, orientation and tracking errors), and use these results to design our technique. We then implement the technique, characterizing its performance with a robotic hand setup and finish with an exploration of the ability of TipTrap to manipulate different types of levitated content. [--]
Materias
Acoustic levitation,
Co-located direct manipulation,
Interaction techniques,
Spatial interaction
Editor
ACM
Publicado en
UIST '22: Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Nueva York: ACM; 2022. p.1-11 978-1-4503-9320-1
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Estadística, Informática y Matemáticas /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Estatistika, Informatika eta Matematika Saila
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Entidades Financiadoras
This research was funded by the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101017746 TOUCHLESS, the AHRC UK-China Research-Industry Creative Partnerships (AH/T01136X/2) and EPSRC and Ultraleap Prosperity Fund (EP/V037846/1).