Below a list of publications on shape changing user interfaces. This list is not meant to be comprehensive, and there may be important work missing. We update it every once in a while. Please send a message to paul[dot]strohmeier[at]gmail.com if you have specific suggestions for papers we should add.
General
Matthijs Kwak, Kasper Hornbæk, Panos Markopoulos, and Miguel Bruns Alonso. 2014. The design space of shape-changing interfaces: a repertory grid study. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems (DIS ’14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 181-190. DOI=10.1145/2598510.2598573http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2598510.2598573
Anne Roudaut, Abhijit Karnik, Markus Löchtefeld, and Sriram Subramanian. 2013. Morphees: toward high “shape resolution” in self-actuated flexible mobile devices.In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 593-602. DOI=10.1145/2470654.2470738http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2470654.2470738
Majken K. Rasmussen, Esben W. Pedersen, Marianne G. Petersen, and Kasper Hornbæk. 2012. Shape-changing interfaces: a review of the design space and open research questions. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 735-744. DOI=10.1145/2207676.2207781 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2207676.2207781
Marcelo Coelho and Jamie Zigelbaum. 2011. Shape-changing interfaces. Personal Ubiquitous Comput. 15, 2 (February 2011), 161-173. DOI=10.1007/s00779-010-0311-y http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-010-0311-y
Rod Displays:
Sean Follmer, Daniel Leithinger, Alex Olwal, Akimitsu Hogge, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2013. inFORM: dynamic physical affordances and constraints through shape and object actuation. InProceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology(UIST ’13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 417-426. DOI=10.1145/2501988.2502032 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2501988.2502032
Daniel Leithinger, David Lakatos, Anthony DeVincenzi, Matthew Blackshaw, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2011. Direct and gestural interaction with relief: a 2.5D shape display. In Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST ’11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 541-548. DOI=10.1145/2047196.2047268 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2047196.2047268
Parkes, A., Poupyrev, I., Ishii, H. Designing Kinetic Interactions for Organic User Interfaces. Communications of the ACM 51(6). 2008: pp. 58-65.
Poupyrev, I., Nashida, T., Okabe, M. Actuation and Tangible User Interfaces: the Vaucanson Duck, Robots, and Shape Displays. Proceedings of TEI’07. 2007: ACM: pp. 205-212,
Poupyrev, I., T. Nashida, S. Maruyama, J. Rekimoto, and Y. Yamaji.Lumen: Interactive visual and shape display for calm computing. SIGGRAPH Conference Abstracts and Applications, Emerging Technologies, 2004: ACM
Shape Changing Mobiles
Antonio Gomes, Andrea Nesbitt, and Roel Vertegaal. 2013. MorePhone: a study of actuated shape deformations for flexible thin-film smartphone notifications. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 583-592. DOI=10.1145/2470654.2470737 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2470654.2470737
Young-Woo Park, Kyoung-Min Baek, and Tek-Jin Nam. 2013. The roles of touch during phone conversations: long-distance couples’ use of POKE in their homes. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1679-1688. DOI=10.1145/2470654.2466222 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2470654.2466222
Jessica Q. Dawson, Oliver S. Schneider, Joel Ferstay, Dereck Toker, Juliette Link, Shathel Haddad, and Karon MacLean. 2013. It’s alive!: exploring the design space of a gesturing phone. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013 (GI ’13). Canadian Information Processing Society, Toronto, Ont., Canada, Canada, 205-212.
Fabian Hemmert, Matthias Löwe, Anne Wohlauf, and Gesche Joost. 2013. Animate mobiles: proxemically reactive posture actuation as a means of relational interaction with mobile phones. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 267-270. DOI=10.1145/2460625.2460669 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2460625.2460669
Byron Lahey, Audrey Girouard, Winslow Burleson, and Roel Vertegaal. 2011. PaperPhone: understanding the use of bend gestures in mobile devices with flexible electronic paper displays. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1303-1312. DOI=10.1145/1978942.1979136 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1978942.1979136
Fabian Hemmert, Susann Hamann, Matthias Löwe, Anne Wohlauf, and Gesche Joost. 2010. Shape-changing mobiles: tapering in one-dimensional deformational displays in mobile phones. In Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction (TEI ’10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 249-252. DOI=10.1145/1709886.1709936 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1709886.1709936
Fabian Hemmert, Susann Hamann, Matthias Löwe, Josefine Zeipelt, and Gesche Joost. 2010. Shape-changing mobiles: tapering in two-dimensional deformational displays in mobile phones. In CHI ’10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3075-3080. DOI=10.1145/1753846.1753920 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753846.1753920
Fabian Hemmert, Susann Hamann, Matthias Löwe, Anne Wohlauf, Josefine Zeipelt, and Gesche Joost. 2010. Take me by the hand: haptic compasses in mobile devices through shape change and weight shift. In Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries (NordiCHI ’10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 671-674. DOI=10.1145/1868914.1869001 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1868914.1869001
Animated & Augmented Paper:
Paul Strohmeier, Kaja Vembe Swensen, Cameron Lapp, Audrey Girouard, and Roel Vertegaal. 2012. A Flock of Birds: bringing paper to life. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’12), Stephen N. Spencer (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 333-334. DOI=10.1145/2148131.2148208 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2148131.2148208
Jie Qi and Leah Buechley. 2012. Animating paper using shape memory alloys. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 749-752. DOI=10.1145/2207676.2207783 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2207676.2207783
Jie Qi and Leah Buechley. 2010. Electronic popables: exploring paper-based computing through an interactive pop-up book. In Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction (TEI ’10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 121-128. DOI=10.1145/1709886.1709909 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1709886.1709909
David Holman, Roel Vertegaal, Mark Altosaar, Nikolaus Troje, and Derek Johns. 2005. Paper windows: interaction techniques for digital paper. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’05). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 591-599. DOI=10.1145/1054972.1055054 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1054972.1055054
Jamming Interfaces
Sean Follmer, Daniel Leithinger, Alex Olwal, Nadia Cheng, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2012. Jamming user interfaces: programmable particle stiffness and sensing for malleable and shape-changing devices. In Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 519-528. DOI=10.1145/2380116.2380181 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2380116.2380181
Pneumatics
Lining Yao, Ryuma Niiyama, Jifei Ou, Sean Follmer, Clark Della Silva, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2013. PneUI: pneumatically actuated soft composite materials for shape changing interfaces. InProceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology(UIST ’13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13-22. DOI=10.1145/2501988.2502037 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2501988.2502037
Human Scale Interactions
Erik Grönvall, Sofie Kinch, Marianne Graves Petersen, and Majken K. Rasmussen. 2014. Causing commotion with a shape-changing bench: experiencing shape-changing interfaces in use. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2559-2568. DOI=10.1145/2556288.2557360 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2556288.2557360
Studies
Esben W. Pedersen, Sriram Subramanian, and Kasper Hornbæk. 2014. Is my phone alive?: a large-scale study of shape change in handheld devices using videos. In Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI ’14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2579-2588. DOI=10.1145/2556288.2557018 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2556288.2557018