ATLS 207C
Daniel Leithinger, assistant professor (ATLAS Institute & Computer Science)听creates shape-changing human computer interfaces that push digital information past the boundaries of flat displays, and into the real world. Motivated by the belief that computers must embrace the dexterity and expressiveness听of the human body, his interfaces allow users to touch, grasp and deform data physically. Daniel received his PhD at the MIT Media Lab in 2015. His academic publications have been published at听ACM UIST, TEI and CHI conferences, and he has听received design awards from Fast Company, Red Dot听and IDEA. Projects like "inFORM" have been exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, Ars Electronica Museum, and the Milan Design Week.
For more information about Daniel听Leithinger's听past work with the Tangible Media Group at the MIT听Media lab,听visit .
Projects
- Augmented Reality Remote Assistance (ARRA)
- Dynablock
- EmotiTactor
- Fabricating Soft Actuators
- HOT SWAP
- LiftTiles
- Mechamagnets
- POPO: VR Programming Language
- RealitySketch
- RoomShift
- Shapebots
- Smart VR Paintbrush
- Haptic Pneumatics Toolkit
- Haptic VR Wizard
- PufferBot
Publications
C. L. Hunt, K. Sun, Z. Dhuliawala, F. Tsukiyama, I. Matkovic, Z. Schwemier, A. Wolf, Z. Zhang, A. Druin, A. Huynh,听D. Leithinger, J. Yip. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC '23)听(Chicago, IL, June 19-23, 2023).
Ran Zhou,听Zachary Schwemler, Akshay Baweja, Harpreet Sareen,听Casey Lee Hunt, and听Daniel Leithinger. 2023. "". In:听Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems听(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).
Cathy Mengying Fang, Ryo Suzuki, and听Daniel Leithinger. 2023. "". In:听Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems听(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).
Ran Zhou,听Zachary Schwemler, Akshay Baweja, Harpreet Sareen,听Casey Lee Hunt, and听Daniel Leithinger. 2023. "". In:听Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems听(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).听
Suibi Che鈥揅huan Weng,听Torin Hopkins,听Rishi Vanukuru,听Chad Tobin,听Amy Banic,听鈥嬧赌�Daniel Leithinger, and听Ellen Yi鈥揕uen Do. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)听(Shanghai, China, March 25-29, 2023).听
Ran Zhou, Harpreet Sareen, Yufei Zhang, and听Daniel Leithinger.听2022. EmotiTactor: Exploring How Designers Approach Emotional Robotic Touch. In听Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1330鈥�1344.听听.pdf 听(June 13-17, 2022鈥擵irtual Event, Australia)听[Best Pictorial Honorable Mention].
Hooman Hedayati,听Ryo听Suzuki,听Wyatt Rees,听Daniel Leithinger, and听Daniel Szafir. 2022.听. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. vol. 9. DOI=10.3389/frobt.2022.719639听 (April 11, 2022).
Ryo Suzuki, Eyal Ofek, Mike Sinclair,听Daniel Leithinger, and Mar Gonzalez-Franco. 2021.听. In听The Adjunct Publication of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 131鈥�133. DOI:听(Virtual鈥揙ct.10-14, 2021).
Purnendu,听Sasha M Novack, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger,听Mirela Alistar,听Mark D Gross,听Carson Bruns, and听Daniel Leithinger. 2021. Electriflow: Soft Electrohydraulic Building Blocks for Prototyping Shape-changing Interfaces.听Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1280鈥�1290. DOI:听(June 28-July 2,听2021鈥�Virtual Event).
Purnendu, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger,听Mark D. Gross,听Carson Bruns,听Daniel Leithinger.听2021. Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators for Origami Inspired Shape-Changing Interfaces. In听CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts听(CHI '21 Extended Abstracts). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages.听. (Yokohama, Japan鈥揗ay 8-13, 2021).听.
Hooman Hedayati,听Ryo Suzuki,听Daniel Leithinger,听Daniel J. Szafir. 2020. PufferBot: Actuated Expandable Structures for Aerial Robots. In听Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020).听DOI:听. (Las Vegas, Nevada鈥揙ct.听25-29, 2020)听.
Ryo Suzuki, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Li-Yi Wei, Stephen DiVerdi, Wilmot Li, and听Daniel Leithinger. 2020. RealitySketch: Embedding Responsive Graphics and Visualizations in AR through Dynamic Sketching. In听Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. DOI:听听(Minneapolis, Minnesota鈥揙ct. 20-23, 2020)听[Honorable Mention Paper Award].
Ryo Suzuki,听Hooman Hedayati,听Clement Zheng, James Bohn,听Daniel Szafir,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听Mark D Gross, and听Daniel Leithinger. 2020. RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots. In听Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 396, 11 pages. DOI:听听 (Honolulu, Hawaii听鈥撎鼳pril 25-30, 2020).
Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi,听Mark D. Gross, and听Daniel Leithinger. 2020. LiftTiles: Constructive Building Blocks for Prototyping Room-scale Shape-changing Interfaces. In听Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Pages 143鈥�151. DOI:听听(Sydney, Australia鈥揊eb. 9-12, 2020).听
Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi,听Mark D. Gross, and听Daniel Leithinger.听2019.听LiftTiles: Modular and Reconfigurable Room-scale Shape Displays through Retractable Inflatable Actuators.听In Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '19).听ACM, New York, NY, USA,听1-3. DOI:听听 (New Orleans, Louisiana 鈥� Oct. 20-23, 2019).
Ryo Suzuki,听Clement Zheng, Yasuaki Kakehi,听Tom Yeh,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听Mark D. Gross,听Daniel Leithinger. 2019. ShapeBots: Shape-changing Swarm Robots. In听Proceedings of The 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology听(UIST'19).听听(New Orleans, LA鈥擮ct. 20-23, 2019).
Peter Gyory,听Clement Zheng,听Daniel Leithinger, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2019. HOT SWAP: Probing Embodied Game Interfaces With Reconfigurable Controllers. In听Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion听(DIS '19 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 183-187. DOI:听.听(San Diego, CA, USA鈥擩une 23-28, 2019).
Clement Zheng,听Jeeeun Kim,听Daniel Leithinger,听Mark D Gross,听&听Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听2019.听Mechamagnets: Designing and Fabricating Haptic and Functional Physical Inputs with Embedded Magnets. In听Proceedings of Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction听(TEI鈥�19), p. 325-334听.
Ryo Suzuki, Junichi Yamaoka,听Daniel Leithinger,听Tom Yeh,听Mark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Yasuaki Kakehi. 2018.听Dynablock: Dynamic 3D Printing for Instant and Reconstructable Shape Formation. In听Proceedings of The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'18).听DOI:听听(Berlin, Germany鈥擮ct.听14-17, 2018).
Udayan Umapathi, Patrick Shin, Ken Nakagaki,听Daniel Leithinger,听and Hiroshi Ishii. 2018. Programmable Droplets for Interaction. In听Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems听(CHI EA '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA. DOI:听听(Montreal QC, Canada鈥擜pril 21-26, 2018).
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