Theme: Awesome New Interfaces

Chairs: Alex, Dalya, Dinislam, Mo

Acceptance Criteria

1. It must be awesome – makes you go WOW
2. It must be out of the ordinary, novel
3. It must advance the state of the art
4. It must be applied to a real world scenario, not a solution looking for a problem
5. It must be a tangible user interface
6. It must open up new possibilities for the future

Session 1: Materiable / SoundForms / Relief

Materiable: Rendering Dynamic Material Properties in Response to Direct Physical Touch with Shape Changing Interfaces

Authors: MIT Media Lab Ken Nakagaki, Luke Vink,  Jared Counts,  Daniel Windham, Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer,  Hiroshi Ishii

Score: 1 – Strongly Accept

Session 2: IrukaTact

IrukaTact: Submersible Haptic Search Glove

Authors: AC Chacin, T Oozu, H Iwata

Score: 2 – Probably Accept

Session 3: Snake Charmer

Snake Charmer: Physically Enabling Virtual Objects

Authors: Bruno Araujo, Ricardo Jota, Varun Perumal, Jia Xian Yao, Karan Singh, Daniel Wigdor

Score: 3 – Neutral

Why you will enjoy this track

• It will open your mind to new ways of interaction.
• And to new ways of tangibly feeling your data in ways you have never done before.
• Your mind will be stimulated!

Our biggest challenge

• Having to disqualify interesting, exciting work, on the grounds it is not awesome enough.