FlexStylus: A Deformable Stylus for Digital Art
Late-Breaking Works: Novel Interactions
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Fellion, Nicholas
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Eady, Alexander Keith
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Girouard, Audrey
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.2482-2489
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: The FlexStylus is a prototype system that embeds sensors measuring analog
flex input in a computer stylus. Through fiber optic sensing, the device
detects both absolute extent and angle of flexion. The device was designed to
allow these two channels of analog input, as well as derived parameters such as
rate and relative motion, to augment the basic x/y functionality of a computer
stylus. The goal of this augmentation is to improve a digital artist's ability
to control their work through tactile manipulation, as well as expand the
artist's range of expression and effects. We also introduce the use of flex
input to create an additional pointing space, allowing for the execution of
gestural drawing commands without moving the tip of the pen.