@inproceedings{4990e613c79d447fa2b200dc1bd29c70,
title = "Capacitive blocks: A block system that connects the physical with the virtual using changes of capacitance",
abstract = "We propose a block-stacking system based on capacitance. The system, called Capacitive Blocks, allows users to build 3D models in a virtual space by stacking physical blocks. The construction of the block-stacking system is simple, and fundamental components including physical blocks can be made with a 3D printer. The block is a capacitor that consists of two layers made of conductive plastic filament and between them a layer made of non-conductive plastic filament. In this paper, we present a prototype of this block-stacking system and the mechanism that detects the height of blocks (i.e., the number of stacked blocks) by measuring the capacitance of the stacked blocks, which changes in accordance with the number of stacked blocks.",
keywords = "3D printing, Building block, Capacitive Block, Computational crafts, Interactive devices, Stacking, Tangible",
author = "Arika Yoshida and Buntarou Shizuki and Jiro Tanaka",
year = "2015",
month = nov,
day = "6",
doi = "10.1145/2815585.2815731",
language = "English",
series = "UIST 2015 - Adjunct Publication of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "85--86",
booktitle = "UIST 2015 - Adjunct Publication of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology",
note = "28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2015 ; Conference date: 08-11-2015 Through 11-11-2015",
}