Displays

Fingernail Displays: Handy Displays at your Fingertips

Humans are mostly using their fingers to interact with their environment. We introduce our vision of Fingernail Displays: tiny displays that are worn on the fingernails. We describe and explore the following application scenarios of fingernail-worn displays: (1) FingerPhone, a standalone device for fast, lightweight interaction that is always at hand; (2) on-finger output on touch displays, whi...

Reconfigurable Displays

Modular Ambient Display boxes provide a modular high-resolution display system that makes experimentation with the physical configuration of the display surfaces relatively simple. MAD Boxes have flush floated rearprojection screens that cause a mere 2 mm inter-screen gap. They can be stacked and reorganized into many possible configurations.

Predictive Displays

Inexperienced helmsmen often oversteer because of the lag that occurs between changing the rudder angle and a change in the vessel’s heading. Predictive displays are a common way of mitigating the effect of lag on human control. Accordingly we developed a predictive display to show the position and heading of a vessel a short time in the future. With this display, the helmsman’s task becomes th...

Deimatic displays

What are deimatic displays? ‘Deimatic’ comes from the Greek δειματσω, ‘to frighten’, and is generally used to describe behaviour in which, when under attack, prey suddenly unleash unexpected defences to frighten their predators and stop the attack. Deimatic displays have also been referred to as deimatic reaction, startle display, responsive defence, dymantic display, dymantic coloration, frigh...

Auditory Displays