Capacitive blocks: A block system that connects the physical with the virtual using changes of capacitance

Arika Yoshida; Buntarou Shizuki; Jiro Tanaka

doi:10.1145/2815585.2815731

Capacitive blocks: A block system that connects the physical with the virtual using changes of capacitance

Arika Yoshida, Buntarou Shizuki, Jiro Tanaka

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

4 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

We propose a block-stacking system based on capacitance. The system, called Capacitive Blocks, allows users to build 3D models in a virtual space by stacking physical blocks. The construction of the block-stacking system is simple, and fundamental components including physical blocks can be made with a 3D printer. The block is a capacitor that consists of two layers made of conductive plastic filament and between them a layer made of non-conductive plastic filament. In this paper, we present a prototype of this block-stacking system and the mechanism that detects the height of blocks (i.e., the number of stacked blocks) by measuring the capacitance of the stacked blocks, which changes in accordance with the number of stacked blocks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UIST 2015 - Adjunct Publication of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	85-86
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450337809
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2815585.2815731
Publication status	Published - 2015 Nov 6
Externally published	Yes
Event	28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2015 - Charlotte, United States Duration: 2015 Nov 8 → 2015 Nov 11

Other

Other	28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2015
Country	United States
City	Charlotte
Period	15/11/8 → 15/11/11

Keywords

3D printing
Building block
Capacitive Block
Computational crafts
Interactive devices
Stacking
Tangible

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Human-Computer Interaction

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Capacitive blocks : A block system that connects the physical with the virtual using changes of capacitance. / Yoshida, Arika; Shizuki, Buntarou; Tanaka, Jiro.

UIST 2015 - Adjunct Publication of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2015. p. 85-86.

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Yoshida, A, Shizuki, B & Tanaka, J 2015, Capacitive blocks: A block system that connects the physical with the virtual using changes of capacitance. in UIST 2015 - Adjunct Publication of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 85-86, 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2015, Charlotte, United States, 15/11/8. https://doi.org/10.1145/2815585.2815731

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