Hyperform Specification Designing With Self Reconfiguring Materials
Publication Conference Paper2009

Hyperform Specification: Designing with Self-reconfiguring Materials

CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Michael Philetus Weller, Mark D Gross, Seth Copen Goldstein

Abstract

We describe the current state of our work to develop a self-reconfiguring material composed of robotic building blocks, and develop scenarios for the specification of hyperforms built with this new type of material that can change in response to tangible and gestural input.

Figure 1: A single prismatic cube hardware module.
Figure 1: A single prismatic cube hardware module.
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