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Towards Non-rigid HCI

This website provides an extensive list of examples of Deformable Interfaces, ranging from prototypes, user-studies, and even commercial products. We included interfaces used for musical expression and 3D modeling, examples of novel sensing technologies, and several types of displays.

We hope that this page can be used by designers and researchers interested in developing and creating novel Deformable Interfaces and Non-rigid Interactions.

To know more about why and how we developed this website, please see the proposed definition of Deformable Interfaces and the related publication for the 2019 ACM DIS Conference.

[ The website is continuously updated ]

 

Categories

  • All Projects
  • prototype
  • user-study
  • products
  • music
  • wearable
  • visual display
  • smartphone
  • games
  • sensing
  • organic

Squeezy

  • music
  • prototype

PushPull

  • music
  • prototype

The Spine

  • music
  • sensing

Self-healing UI

  • prototype

HapSense

  • prototype
  • sensing

WiBend

  • prototype
  • sensing

Sailing Skweezee

  • prototype
  • VR

Slime-o-tron

  • music
  • organic
  • prototype

Serpentine

  • prototype
  • sensing

Resistive flex sensors: a survey

  • sensing

Skweezee for Processing

  • prototype

StringTouch

  • music
  • prototype

IllumiWear

  • music
  • prototype

SandScape

  • organic
  • prototype
  • visual display

ReFlex

  • prototype
  • smartphone
  • visual display

Dynamically Changeable Physical Buttons

  • prototype

Skoog Music

  • music
  • products

CMG:The Cell

  • music
  • products

MultiSoft

  • prototype

iSoft

    I/O Braid

    • wearable

    TIMMi

    • wearable

    Pleasantness in the manipulation of deformable interfaces for musical expression

    • music
    • user-study

    PerForm

    • music

    OrbTouch

    • games

    Flexibles

    • games

    SmartSleeve

    • wearable

    Bendtroller

    • games

    Interactive Force-Sensitive Digitally Encoded Materials

    • prototype

    DeformWear

    • wearable

    PaperNinja

    • games

    InformationSense

    • visual display

    Bendy

    • games
    • visual display

    StretchEBand

    • wearable

    Flexy

    • embedded
    • flat
    • flexible

    FlexStylus

    • flexible
    • non-shape retaining
    • organic
    • tools
    • volumetric

    BendSwipe

    • visual display

    Typhlex

    • user-study

    FoamSense

    • sensing

    Paper for E-Paper

      ClaytricSurface

      • visual display

      BendableSound

      • music
      • therapy
      • user-study
      • visual display

      FabricKeyboard

      • music

      TableHop

        Bending Blindly

        • user-study

        HoloFlex

        • smartphone
        • visual display

        Shape Changes for Conveying Emotions

        • user-study

        Bend Passwords

        • smartphone

        Stretchis

        • sensing
        • wearable

        HandLog

        • games

        FlexCase

          LIME

            Effects of Input Mapping and Stiffness on Flexible Display Interactions

            • smartphone
            • user-study

            Visual Feedforward Guides for Performing Bend Gestures on Deformable Prototypes

            • user-study

            WhammyPhone

            • music
            • smartphone

            fStrip

              Projectagami

              • visual display

              clayodor

                One-handed deformation gestures with flexible smartphones

                • smartphone
                • user-study

                Elasticoon

                • wearable

                3D Printing Pneumatic Device Controls

                  Deformable Interfaces for Performing Music

                  • music
                  • user-study

                  SENSECASE

                    RoCuModel

                      BendID

                      • games

                      Trampoline

                        JamSheets

                          FlexSense

                            What is a device bend gesture really good for?

                            • smartphone
                            • user-study

                            User-defined gestures for elastic, deformable displays

                            • user-study
                            • visual display

                            Augmenting bend gestures with pressure zones

                              SoundFlex

                                SculpTon

                                • music

                                NoiseBear

                                • music

                                Marsui

                                • music

                                DIRTI

                                • music
                                • organic

                                FlexView

                                • smartphone

                                The Skweezee System

                                  Classification of Bend Gestures

                                    DeforMe

                                    • visual display

                                    ElaScreen

                                      Linetic

                                        Twisting touch

                                        • user-study

                                        Feel the action

                                        • user-study

                                        PaperTab

                                        • visual display

                                        Emoballoon

                                          Touch Selection Accuracy on Deformable Interfaces

                                          • visual display

                                          The Music Ball Project

                                          • music

                                          Jamming User Interfaces

                                            metaSkin

                                              NeonDough

                                              • organic

                                              The Effect of Size on Deformable Interfaces

                                              • user-study

                                              Nokia Kinetic Device

                                              • smartphone

                                              Inflated roly-poly

                                                DepthTouch

                                                • visual display

                                                Kinetic DUI-RP

                                                • user-study

                                                FlexCam

                                                  Deformable Touch Surfaces

                                                    Squishy Circuits

                                                    • organic

                                                    MimicTile

                                                      ClayStation

                                                      • organic

                                                      SMAAD Surface

                                                        FuwaFuwa

                                                          Sensing Through Structure

                                                            FlexRemote

                                                              deForm

                                                                FlexPad

                                                                • visual display

                                                                Cloth Displays

                                                                • visual display

                                                                EchoFoam

                                                                • music

                                                                The Sponge

                                                                • music

                                                                PIPLEX

                                                                • games
                                                                • organic

                                                                User Manipulation of Deformable Displays

                                                                • user-study

                                                                MudPad

                                                                  Cobra

                                                                  • visual display

                                                                  Digital Clay as Active Material

                                                                  • organic

                                                                  Photoelastic Touch

                                                                  • visual display

                                                                  Foldable User Interfaces

                                                                  • visual display

                                                                  PaperPhone

                                                                  • smartphone

                                                                  Deformable Workspace

                                                                  • visual display

                                                                  Inflatable Mouse

                                                                    TWEND

                                                                      Digital foam

                                                                        The Silent Drum

                                                                        • music

                                                                        Ballagumi

                                                                        • music

                                                                        Senspectra

                                                                          Clay tone

                                                                          • music
                                                                          • organic

                                                                          Zstretch

                                                                          • music

                                                                          Glume

                                                                            SCULPROX

                                                                              Play-Doh As Interface

                                                                              • organic

                                                                              Volflex

                                                                                Khronos projector

                                                                                • visual display

                                                                                A malleable surface touch interface

                                                                                  Phoxel Space

                                                                                  • external sensors
                                                                                  • moldable
                                                                                  • naturally
                                                                                  • organic
                                                                                  • prototype
                                                                                  • shape-retaining
                                                                                  • visual display

                                                                                  Gummi

                                                                                  • display
                                                                                  • embedded sensors
                                                                                  • flexible
                                                                                  • non-shape retaining
                                                                                  • prototype
                                                                                  • smartphone
                                                                                  • smartphone
                                                                                  • visual display

                                                                                  SillyTone Squish Factory

                                                                                  • embedded sensors
                                                                                  • flexible
                                                                                  • music
                                                                                  • music expression
                                                                                  • non-shape retaining
                                                                                  • organic
                                                                                  • organic
                                                                                  • prototype
                                                                                  • zoomorphic

                                                                                  Sonic Banana

                                                                                  • embedded sensors
                                                                                  • flexible
                                                                                  • music
                                                                                  • music expression
                                                                                  • non-shape retaining
                                                                                  • prototype

                                                                                  An Inertial, Pliable Interface

                                                                                  • cuboid
                                                                                  • embedded sensors
                                                                                  • malleable
                                                                                  • music
                                                                                  • music expression
                                                                                  • non-shape retaining
                                                                                  • prototype
                                                                                  • volumetric

                                                                                  GelForce

                                                                                  • flat
                                                                                  • haptics
                                                                                  • moldable
                                                                                  • prototype
                                                                                  • sensing

                                                                                  Illuminating Clay

                                                                                  • 3D graphics
                                                                                  • applications
                                                                                  • external sensors
                                                                                  • flat
                                                                                  • moldable
                                                                                  • organic
                                                                                  • prototype
                                                                                  • shape-retaining
                                                                                  • visual display

                                                                                  Project FEELEX

                                                                                  • 3D graphics
                                                                                  • embedded sensors
                                                                                  • haptics
                                                                                  • prototype
                                                                                  • shape-retaining

                                                                                  The Squeezamin

                                                                                  • cuboid
                                                                                  • embedded sensors
                                                                                  • music
                                                                                  • music expression
                                                                                  • non-shape retaining
                                                                                  • prototype
                                                                                  • volumetric

                                                                                  Squeezables

                                                                                  • embedded sensors
                                                                                  • music
                                                                                  • music expression
                                                                                  • non-shape retaining
                                                                                  • prototype
                                                                                  • spheroid
                                                                                  • volumetric

                                                                                  The Embroidered Music Ball

                                                                                  • embedded sensors
                                                                                  • music
                                                                                  • music expression
                                                                                  • non-shape retaining
                                                                                  • spheroid
                                                                                  • volumetric

                                                                                  Shape-Tape

                                                                                  • 3D graphics
                                                                                  • controller
                                                                                  • embedded
                                                                                  • flat
                                                                                  • non-shape retaining

                                                                                  GraspCom

                                                                                  • embedded sensors
                                                                                  • music
                                                                                  • music expression
                                                                                  • non-shape retaining
                                                                                  • prototype
                                                                                  • spheroid
                                                                                  • volumetric

                                                                                  DO-IT

                                                                                  • 3D graphics
                                                                                  • cuboid
                                                                                  • embedded sensors
                                                                                  • non-shape retaining
                                                                                  • prototype
                                                                                  • volumetric