MistForm New Shape Shifting Fog Screen for Interacting with 3-D Objects
The mid-air display allows users to reach through it and interact with 2D and 3D objects, all the while changing shape and position to optimize visibility, facilitate interaction or flexibly adapt to single or multiple users interacting with the floating content.
Credit: ACM SIGCHI
While shape-changing displays and fog screens already exist, in labs at least, this is the first time the two technologies have been combined, which opens up new possibilities.
The invention, called MistForm, was presented Wednesday 10 May in Denver, USA, at the world’s biggest conference on human-computer interaction, called CHI 2017.
Dr Diego Martinez Plasencia, a Lecturer in the Interact Lab at the University of Sussex’s School of Engineering and Informatics, said: “This has the potential to enable new forms of interaction and collaboration with computers, liberating users from fixed, static screens and opening up whole new interactive spaces.
“This latest study builds upon early concepts to provide a far more enjoyable and reliable user experience, by combining two exciting technologies to combat the issues of distortion and uneven brightness that we often see with fog screens.
“With other 3D display technologies your eyes need to focus on the display surface, even if you see an object “popping out” of the screen. If you then try to touch it, your eyes will need to focus either on your hand or on the display, which soon can lead to eye fatigue (unless the 3D object and your hand are really close to the display surface).
MistForm is roughly the size of a 39-inch TV screen and is formed of fog stabilised by curtains of air. The screen can move towards and away from the user and can bend into numerous different shapes. For example, it can curve around two collaborators, providing optimum visibility for both people, or it can take on a triangular shape if those two people need to work on different areas of the screen independently.
The display is projected from above and motion trackers detect the user’s movements and intentions, allowing the display to adapt accordingly.
James Hakner
Citation: CHI ’17 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Pages 4383-4395
Denver, Colorado, USA — May 06 – 11, 2017
ACM New York, NY, USA ©2017
table of contents ISBN: 978-1-4503-4655-9 doi>10.1145/3025453.3025608
Further information: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3025453.3025608
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2017/05/mistform-new-shape-shifting-fog-screen.html
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