Magnetic Plotter

Kentaro Yasu (2017)

A design method of magnetic rubber sheet-based haptic interactions.

Magnetic Plotter is a home-use magnetic field editing system. The desktop digital plotting machine combined with a tiny neodymium magnet produces fine magnetic fields on the surface of magnetic rubber sheets. When the magnetized rubber sheets are rubbed against one another, unique haptic stimuli are haptic stimuli can be changed by the magnetic fields of the rubber sheets. Thus, this method enables users to design haptic fields with commercially available materials.

Magnetic Plotter

Magnetic fields can be printed

Two sheets provides haptic stimuli

Spatial frequency can be designed

Application_ Texture Book

Publication:

Kentaro Yasu. 2017. Magnetic Plotter: A Macrotexture Design Method Using Magnetic Rubber Sheets. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4983-4993. DOI : https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025702 [Full Paper]
Kentaro Yasu, (2017). "Magnetic Plotter: A Macrotexture Design Method Using Magnetic Rubber Sheets", SIGGRAPH 2017 studio
DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3084863.3084866 [demo]

(2017.04.27) Published.

(2018.02.13) A press release regarding this research has been announced.
http://www.ntt.co.jp/news2018/1802/180213a.html