The power-aware cord: energy awareness through ambient information display
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Lumen: interactive visual and shape display for calm computing
SIGGRAPH '04 ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Emerging technologies
Bloxels: glowing blocks as volumetric pixels
SIGGRAPH '09: Posters
Karma chameleon: bragg fiber jacquard-woven photonic textiles
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
Six-forty by four-eighty: the post-industrial design of computational materials
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
Bouncing glow: methods of creating content elements for one-pixel-displays
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
Blinky blocks: a physical ensemble programming platform
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Unlocking the expressivity of point lights
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
rainbottles: gathering raindrops of data from the cloud
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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We present Volumetric Linear Gradient, a simple volumetric display. The display consists of a fiber-optic cylinder with a diffused surface and a light emitting diode (LED) on each end. Each LED emits a different color and the light is mixed within the light guide. It is possible to proportionally modify the two light colors within the medium through pulse-width modulation of the two LEDs. The result is similar to moving the stop points of a gradient in graphic design software. This volumetric display can be used as an information display, giving ambient clues about temporal or quantitative data. The display can take different shapes and can be composed of several of these elements in order to create a more complex display. Possible application uses are volumetric progress bars, energy indicators or, in combination with sensors, simple gravitational fluid metaphors.