Severin Engert, Konstantin Klamka, Andreas Peetz, Raimund Dachselt

Interactive Media Lab Dresden

We present STRAIDE, a string-actuated interactive display environment that allows to explore the promising potential of shape-changing interfaces for casual visualizations. At the core, we envision a platform that spatially levitates elements to create dynamic visual shapes in space. We conceptualize this type of tangible midair display and discuss its multifaceted design dimensions. Through a design exploration, we realize a physical research platform with adjustable parameters and modular components. For conveniently designing and implementing novel applications, we provide developer tools ranging from graphical emulators to in-situ augmented reality representations. To demonstrate STRAIDE's reconfigurability, we further introduce three representative physical setups as a basis for situated applications including ambient notifications, personal smart home controls, and entertainment. They serve as a technical validation, lay the foundations for a discussion with developers that provided valuable insights, and encourage ideas for future usage of this type of appealing interactive installation.

doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517462

maintained by Severin Engert

• Hardware
• Firmware
  • Server
  • Slave Motors
  • Slave Colors
• Software
  • Platform Emulator (Executable, Unity-Project, AR (tba))
  • Clients (Arduino, JavaScript, C#)
  • Visual Editor (live (tba))