Ph.D student Raf Ramakers from Belgium’s Hasselt University will present ‘Paddle: highly deformable mobile devices with physical controls’ at the Internet of Things Event 2014 to be held on June 3 this year in The Netherlands. Raf is a Ph.D student in Human Computer Interaction.
Paddle is a device that can be mangled into various shapes. Paddle tries to bridge the gap between differently sized mobile available devices nowadays, such as phones and Tablets. Additionally, Paddle demonstrates a novel opportunity for deformable devices to transform into differently shaped physical controls that provide clear physical affordances for the task at hand.
Raf Ramakers
Raf’s research includes exploring how computing devices can become more tangible with advances in technology, such as flexible displays, printed electronics and computer vision. According to a blog post on the Internet of Things Event, physical controls have the advantage of exploiting people’s innate abilities for manipulating physical objects in the real world. The Paddle prototype is a system based on engineering principles that are based on the design of the Rubik’s magic, a folding plate puzzle.
In his talk, Raf is expected to elaborate on the novel interaction techniques enabled by Paddle and the benefits over traditional touch interaction techniques.
About Hasselt University / Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM)
EDM performs research in computer science since 1987. The focus is on two core competences: ‘Visual Computing’ and ‘Human-Computer Interaction’. EDM’s key objective is to be a leading research institute in human-computer interaction, computer graphics, multimedia networking, computer vision and virtual environments.
Image Credit: IOTEvent/Raf Ramakers/Hasselt Univ
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