Shape-Kit: A Design Toolkit for Crafting On-Body Expressive Haptics

要旨

Driven by the vision of everyday haptics, the HCI community is advocating for “design touch first” and investigating “how to touch well.” However, a gap remains between the exploratory nature of haptic design and technical reproducibility. We present Shape-Kit, a hybrid design toolkit embodying our “crafting haptics” metaphor, where hand touch is transduced into dynamic pin-based sensations that can be freely explored across the body. An ad-hoc tracking module captures and digitizes these patterns. Our study with 14 designers and artists demonstrates how Shape-Kit facilitates sensorial exploration for expressive haptic design. We analyze how designers collaboratively ideate, prototype, iterate, and compose touch experiences and show the subtlety and richness of touch that can be achieved through diverse crafting methods with Shape-Kit. Reflecting on the findings, our work contributes key insights into haptic toolkit design and touch design practices centered on the “crafting haptics” metaphor. We discuss in-depth how Shape-Kit’s simplicity, though remaining constrained, enables focused crafting for deeper exploration, while its collaborative nature fosters shared sense-making of touch experiences.

受賞
Honorable Mention
著者
Ran Zhou
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Jianru Ding
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Chenfeng Gao
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wanli Qian
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Benjamin Erickson
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States
Madeline Balaam
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Daniel Leithinger
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
Ken Nakagaki
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713981

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713981

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Haptic Technology

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