February 21st 2012, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

• Camille Moussette, Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden camille.moussette@dh.umu.se
• Christoffel Kuenen, Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden christoffel.kuenen@dh.umu.se
• Ali Israr, Disney Research, israr@disneyresearch.com

Mouna Andraos, Jorge Cardoso, Andrea Cuadra, Christian Dell, Christoph Eichhorn, Jill Fantauzzacoffin, Jonas Forsslund, Katrin Gaedcke, Scotty Hoag, Eva Hornecker, Jonathan Morrissey, Le Viet Nguyen, Hendrik Richter, Jelle Saldien, Paul Strohmeier, Kiyoshi Tomimatsu, Leonie Urff, Katrin Wolf, Kuan-Ju Wu, and a few more

Flickr set (with videos): TEI 2012 Designing Haptics Studio.

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• Arduino + Motor Shield
• Motors, actuators, servos, solenoids, etc.
• Construction kits: Mecchano + MicroRax
• Building supplies (limited): foamcore, hot glue, felt, etc

The Studio will have three main phases: an introduction to Haptics (talks/presentations), a review and exploration of the demos and hardware sketches (hands-on), and lastly a hands-on session where participants will build, modify, hack and sketch new haptic interfaces (participants actively working).

12h30 to 13h30

• Welcome message, introduction of coordinators and participants, practicalities, schedule of the Studio
• Introduction on haptics, sketching in hardware, aesthetics of interaction. Camille's slides

13h30 to 14h00

• Hands-on walk through of the demo’s and prototyping platforms provided by coordinators.

14h00 to 15h00

• Work in teams of 2
• Build haptic sketch, focus on the construction/tech.

15h00 to 15h20

• Break

15h20 to 16h30

• Focus on the experience
• Explore the qualities/ defining parameters of haptic experience

16h30 to 17h30

• Presentation and tangible exploration of all sketches; discussion on the challenges and solutions in building each sketch.
• Discussion, Documentation, Reflection and wrap up.

• Camille's introduction presentation/slides
• Ali's presentation

Some tips and ideas to build haptic interfaces quickly

• Use audio to drive haptics (easy to edit), but not available for all actuators/controllers
• Use the world to control the world! Map analog sensor to haptic output instead of coding complex behaviours. Processing sketch to visualize analogSensor

• Shortcuts are inevitable, focus on sketches that inform your design questions.
• Have multiples/variations of the same haptic interfaces
• Tradeoff between development time vs durability

• Arduino (make sure you have the latest 1.0 version), http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
• Adafruit Motor shield, http://www.adafruit.com/products/81, Arduino library, tutorial + code example
• Using third-party libraries with Arduino

• Processing, version 1.5.1, http://processing.org/download
• controlP5, GUI library for Processing, http://www.sojamo.de/libraries/controlP5/

• Servo motors, http://www.societyofrobots.com/actuators_servos.shtml
• Miga motors http://www.migamotors.com, actuators using shape memory alloy
• Pololu http://www.pololu.com, motors, controllers and kits
• Servo City http://www.servocity.com, online store with numerous servos, brackets and accessories
• Haptuator from Tactile Labs, http://www.tactilelabs.com/main/products/haptuator

• Arduino Commander, sends motor commands over serial for Motor Shield, code libraries
• Processing sketch for Arduino Commander motorshield_commander_v1_processing.zip
• Simple Arduino code for Motor Shield code

• Previous workshops: Umeå Oct 2011, UBC, Vancouver August 2011, Chalmers,Gothenburg Nov 2010, , Umeå Oct 2010
• Camille's PhD blog: http://www.partly-cloudy.com
• Camille's wiki on Design + Haptics: http://www.partly-cloudy.com/wiki