AutoGami: A Low-cost Rapid Prototyping Toolkit for Automated Movable Paper Craft

AutoGami: A Low-cost Rapid Prototyping Toolkit for Automated Movable Paper Craft

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Kening Zhu and Shengdong Zhao

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Abstract

AutoGami is a toolkit for designing automated movable paper craft using the technology of selective inductive power transmission. AutoGami has hardware and software components that allow users to design and implement automated movable paper craft without any prerequisite knowledge of electronics; it also supports rapid prototyping. Apart from developing the toolkit, we have analyzed the design space of movable paper craft and developed a taxonomy to facilitate the design of automated paper craft. AutoGami made consistently strong showings in design workshops, confirming its viability in supporting engagement and creativity as well as its usability in storytelling through paper craft. Additional highlights include rapid prototyping of product design as well as interaction design such as human-robot interactions.

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Kening Zhu, Shengdong Zhao: AutoGami: a low-cost rapid prototyping toolkit for automated movable paper craft. CHI 2013: 661-670

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Shen is an HCI professor at the National University of Singapore working on realizing his vision of HeadsUp Computing, a new Interaction paradigm that can transform the way we live and interact with computers. In his free time, Shen loves to read, run, spend time with family and friends, and explore nature.

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