Making 3D Printed Objects Interactive Using Wireless Accelerometers

Jonathan David Hook; Thomas Nappey; Steve Hodges; Peter C. Wright; Patrick Olivier

doi:10.1145/2559206.2581137

Making 3D Printed Objects Interactive Using Wireless Accelerometers

Jonathan David Hook, Thomas Nappey, Steve Hodges, Peter C. Wright, Patrick Olivier

Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

e present an approach that allows designers and others to quickly and easily make 3D printed objects interactive, without the need for hardware or software expertise and with little modification to an object's physical design. With our approach, a designer simply attaches or embeds small three-axis wireless accelerometer modules into the moving parts of a 3D printed object. A simple graphical user interface is then used to configure the system to interpret the movements of these accelerometers as if they were common physical controls such as buttons or dials. The designer can then associate events generated by these controls with a range of interactive behavior, including web browser and media player control.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1435-1440
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-2474-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581137
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014 - Toronto, Canada Duration: 26 Apr 2014 → 1 May 2014

Conference

Conference	ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	26/04/14 → 1/05/14

Access to Document

10.1145/2559206.2581137

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Hook, JD, Nappey, T, Hodges, S, Wright, PC & Olivier, P 2014, Making 3D Printed Objects Interactive Using Wireless Accelerometers. in Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 1435-1440, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014, Toronto, Canada, 26/04/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581137

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