JamSheets: Thin interfaces with tunable stiffness enabled by layer jamming

TEI 2014 - 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 65-72

  Ou, Jifei ^a   Yao, Lining ^a   Tauber, Daniel ^a,b   Steimle, Jürgen ^a,c   Niiyama, Ryuma ^a   Ishii, Hiroshi ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flexible interfaces; Haptic feedback; Jamming; Organic user interfaces; Variable stiffness

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; JAMMING; STIFFNESS; USER INTERFACES;

ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; FLEXIBLE INTERFACES; HAPTIC FEEDBACKS; MULTIPLE MATERIALS; ORGANIC USER INTERFACES; PNEUMATIC ACTUATION; SHAPE DEFORMATION; VARIABLE STIFFNESS;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84897563291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2540930.2540971     Document Type: Conference Paper

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