Title: Actuated Walls as Media Connecting and Dividing Physical/Virtual Spaces

Abstract: The walls serve as the “media” that separate and/or connect the physical and virtual worlds, sometimes separating an individual room in a physical world as partitions, and sometimes connecting the physical and virtual worlds as windows or displays. To extend those of the wall as the medium, I’m currently exploring a variety of interactions with physically actuated walls. In this talk, I will introduce two example systems; WaddleWalls, an interactive workspace partitioning system using a swarm of robotic partitions, and BouncyScreen, a moving display that physically augments pseudo-haptic effects.

Bio: Yuki Onishi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Information Sciences / Research Institute of Electrical Communication at Tohoku University, Japan. Her research interests focus on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human-Robot Interaction (HBI), especially shape-changing user interfaces, tangible interfaces, interactive workspace design, and AR/VR/MR. She designs the physical user interfaces that seamlessly connect the physical and virtual worlds. She has presented her works at UIST'22, CHI'21, IEEE VR'21 and ’19, and SIGGRAPH Asia'18 Emerging Technologies.