Designing an Expandable Illuminated Ring to Build an Actuated Ring Chart

Maxime Daniel (1, 2) , Guillaume Rivière (1, 2) , Nadine Couture (1, 2)

1 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
2 ESTIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Data physicalizations are growing popular in many societal domains which indicates a strong potential for fostering public engagement thanks to public exhibition (e.g. in train stations, in airports, on roundabouts, and in enterprises). We focus on dynamic physical charts for visualizing renewable energy forecasts in public spaces. To get charts readable from any point of view around, we propose a physical ring chart inspired by stone cairns. To build this physical chart, we designed an expandable and stackable illuminated ring. In this paper, we describe the design process and the limitations of the first prototype of such a ring. Maxime Daniel, Guillaume Rivière, Nadine Couture. Designing an Expandable Illuminated Ring to Build an Actuated Ring Chart. Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions (TEI'18), Mar 2018, Stockholm, Sweden. 〈hal-01668076〉

Mots clés: Data Physicalization; Tangible User Interfaces; Shape-Changing Interfaces; Actuation; Dynamic Physical Ring Charts; Renewable Energy Forecast; Shifting Energy Demand; Public spaces.

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Maxime Daniel, Guillaume Rivière, Nadine Couture. Designing an Expandable Illuminated Ring to Build an Actuated Ring Chart. 2017. ⟨medihal-01691514⟩