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TY - GEN
T1 - MixFab: a mixed-reality environment for personal fabrication
AU - Weichel, Christian
AU - Lau, Manfred
AU - Kim, David
AU - Villar, Nicolas
AU - Gellersen, Hans
N1 - Best Paper Award at CHI 2014 (Top 1% of submissions)
PY - 2014/4/26
Y1 - 2014/4/26
N2 - Personal fabrication machines, such as 3D printers and laser cutters, are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. However, designing objects for fabrication still requires 3D modeling skills, thereby rendering such technologies inaccessible to a wide user-group. In this paper, we introduce MixFab, a mixed-reality environment for personal fabrication that lowers the barrier for users to engage in personal fabrication. Users design objects in an immersive augmented reality environment, interact with virtual objects in a direct gestural manner and can introduce existing physical objects effortlessly into their designs. We describe the design and implementation of MixFab, a user-defined gesture study that informed this design, show artifacts designed with the system and describe a user study evaluating the system's prototype.
AB - Personal fabrication machines, such as 3D printers and laser cutters, are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. However, designing objects for fabrication still requires 3D modeling skills, thereby rendering such technologies inaccessible to a wide user-group. In this paper, we introduce MixFab, a mixed-reality environment for personal fabrication that lowers the barrier for users to engage in personal fabrication. Users design objects in an immersive augmented reality environment, interact with virtual objects in a direct gestural manner and can introduce existing physical objects effortlessly into their designs. We describe the design and implementation of MixFab, a user-defined gesture study that informed this design, show artifacts designed with the system and describe a user study evaluating the system's prototype.
U2 - 10.1145/2556288.2557090
DO - 10.1145/2556288.2557090
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781450324731
SP - 3855
EP - 3864
BT - CHI '14 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - ACM
CY - New York
ER -