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A tangible design tool for sketching materials in products

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2009

Daniel Saakes  and
Pieter Jan Stappers
Daniel Saakes
Affiliation:
ID-Studiolab, School of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Pieter Jan Stappers
Affiliation:
ID-Studiolab, School of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Industrial designers make sketches and physical models to start and develop ideas and concept designs. Such representations have advantages that they support fast, intuitive, rich, sensory exploration of solutions. Although existing tools and techniques provide adequate support where the shape of the product is concerned, the exploration of surface qualities such as material and printed graphics is supported to a much lesser extent. Moreover, there are no tools that have the fluency of sketching that allow combined exploration of shape, material, and their interactions. This paper evaluates Skin, an augmented reality tool designed to solve these two shortcomings. By projecting computer-generated images onto the shape model Skin allows for a “sketchy” tangible interaction where designers can explore surface qualities on a three-dimensional physical shape model. The tool was evaluated in three design situations in the domain of ceramics design. In each case, we found that the joint exploration of shape and surface provided creative benefits in the form of new solutions; in addition, a gain in efficiency was found in at least one case. The results show that joint exploration of shape and surface can be effectively supported with tangible augmented reality techniques and suggest that this can be put to practical use in industry today.

Keywords

Augmented RealityCeramicsDesign ToolTangible Interaction
Type
Research Article
Information
AI EDAM , Volume 23 , Issue 3: Tangible Interaction for Design , August 2009 , pp. 275 - 287
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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