[Description]
We present a shape-changing mobile device, Bendi, which enables tactile-visual interactions in real time during phone conversations. It allows users to generate shape-changing movements such upward or downward bending, left or right tilting, and shrinking from the user's joystick input to the other party's device. Bendi is divided into the upper part that represents small and fast movements and the lower part that represents larger movements. We designed that users can have phone conversations with Bendi while holding the device in the hand and wearing an earphone, because this is one of natural phone calling postures.
We present a shape-changing mobile device, Bendi, which enables tactile-visual interactions in real time during phone conversations. It allows users to generate shape-changing movements such upward or downward bending, left or right tilting, and shrinking from the user's joystick input to the other party's device. Bendi is divided into the upper part that represents small and fast movements and the lower part that represents larger movements. We designed that users can have phone conversations with Bendi while holding the device in the hand and wearing an earphone, because this is one of natural phone calling postures.
[Publications]
Park, YW., Park, J., & Nam, TJ. (2015, April). The trial of bendi in a coffeehouse: use of a shape-changing device for a tactile-visual phone conversation. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2181–2190. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702326
Park, YW., Park, J., & Nam, TJ. (2015, April). The trial of bendi in a coffeehouse: use of a shape-changing device for a tactile-visual phone conversation. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2181–2190. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702326
Park, YW., Park, J., & Nam, TJ. (2015, April). Bendi: Shape-changing mobile device for a tactile-visual phone conversation. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '15). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 181. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732493