Shape changing display that can control surface volume and stiffness

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K16036
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Human interface and interaction
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Sato Toshiki 東京工業大学, 情報理工学院, 助教 (90619785)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 柔軟ディスプレイ / 立体形状ディスプレイ / 触覚ディスプレイ / タッチスクリーン

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Previous shape changing display system can transform its shape of the display surface from full flat shape to 2.5-dimensional shape. However it is difficult to creae three-dimensional shape with high vertical surface because a deformation volume of the display material is limited.
In this research, we focused on dynamic display volume control technique, and prototyped novel shape changing mechanism that can contorol stiffness and internal material volume by using an arrayed sylinder-piston volume control mechanism combiled with a particle jamming technique.
We also developed prototype applications that can utilize dynamic shape/volume changing display surface and also can utilize three-dimensional shape with high vertical surface.

Free Research Field

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