PickCells: A Physically Reconfigurable Cell-composed Touchscreen
Channel: Alix GOGUEY
Date: 2019-04-19

Touchscreens are the predominant medium for interactions with digital services; however, their current fixed form factor narrows the scope for rich physical interactions by limiting interaction possibilities to a single, planar surface. In this paper we introduce the concept of PickCells, a fully reconfigurable device concept composed of cells, that breaks the mould of rigid screens and explores a modular system that affords rich sets of tangible interactions and novel across-device relationships. Through a series of co-design activities – involving HCI experts and potential end-users of such systems – we synthesised a design space aimed at inspiring future research, giving researchers and designers a framework in which to explore modular screen interactions. The design space we propose unifies existing works on modular touch surfaces under a general framework and broadens horizons by opening up unexplored spaces providing new interaction possibilities. In this paper, we present the PickCells concept, a design space of modular touch surfaces, and propose a toolkit for quick scenario prototyping.

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Goguey, A., Steer, C., Lucero, A., Nigay, L., Sahoo, D., Coutrix, C., Roudaut, A., Subramanian, S., Tokuda, Y., Neate, T., Pearson, J., Robinson, S. & Jones, M. PickCells: A Physically Reconfigurable Cell-composed Touchscreen. CHI '19

Swansea University, UK
Aalto University, Finland
Université Grenoble-Alpes, France
CNRS, France
University of Bristol, UK
University of Sussex, UK
City University of London, UK

https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300503