PhotoelasticBall: a touch detectable ball using photoelasticity

ABSTRACT

Balls are a key equipment for sports and entertainments such as juggling, etc. Then, much research has been conducted for developing balls of the next generation to enhance ball related entertainments. Such balls have plenty of special effects such as sound and light, but have limited input method. Those effects are often controlled through ball's native motion by using accelerometers, etc. However, as increasing the variety of special functions of such balls, the appropriate input method should be required. In this research, we developed a force vector sensor sheet unit that can be implemented on the surface of the ball. In this paper, we report the detail of the sensory system and its experimental results.

References

1. Hiramatsu, R. PUYO-CON. Proceeding of ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 Art Gallery & Emerging Technologies: Adaptation (2009), 81--81.
2. Hook, J., Taylor, S., Butler, A., Villar, N., Izabi, S. A reconfigurable ferromagnetic input device. Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (2009), 51--54.
3. Ichikawa, T., Nojima, T. Development of the motion-controllable ball. Adjunct proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, (2010), 425--426.
4. Ishii, H., Wisneski, C., Orbanes, J., Chun, B., Paradiso, J. PingPongPlus: design of an athletic-tangible interface for computer-supported cooperative play. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1999), 394--401.
5. Izuta, O., Sato, T., Kodama, S., Koike, H. Bouncing Star project: design and development of augmented sports application using a ball including electronic and wireless modules. Proceedings of the 1st Augmented Human International Conference (2010), Article No.22.
6. Jonas, P., Kristian, H., Carsten, G., Bernd, B., Marc, A. Throwable panoramic ball camera. Procs of SIGGRAPH Asia Emerging Technologies (2011), Article No.4
7. Kamiyama, K., Kajimoto, H., Kawakami, Na., Susumu, T. Evaluation of a Vision-based Tactile Sensor. International Conference on Robotics and Automation '04 Vol.2 (2004), 1542--1547.
8. Sagisaka, T., Ohmura, Y.i, Nagakubo, A., Ozaki, K., Kuniyoshi, Y. Development and applications of high-density tactile sensing glove. Procs of the international conference on Haptics: perception, devices, mobility, and communication, Vol. I (2012), 445--456.
9. Sugano, Y., Mochizuki, Y., Usui, T., Okude, N. Shootball: the ball sport using dynamic goals. Procs of the international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology (2007), 262--263.
10. Sato, T, Mamiya, H., Koike, H., Fukuchi, K. PhotoelasticTouch: transparent rubbery tangible interface using an LCD and photoelasticity. Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (2009), 43--50.
11. Taylor, B., Bove, V. M. Jr. Graspables: Grasp-Recognition as a User Interface. In Procs. CHI2009, ACM Press (2009), 917--926.
12. Tsukada, K., Oki, M. ChameleonBall. Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction (2010), 387--388.
13. Weinberg, G., Orth, M., Russo, P. The embroidered musical ball: a squeezable instrument for expressive performance. Procs of Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2000), 283--284.

Index Terms

• Human-centered computing

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)

    • Interaction paradigms