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Timeline

10.2018
Started 3 months Thesis
01.2019
Finished and defended Thesis
03.2019
Presented at BMW Group in FIZ, Munich
07.2019
Exhibited online and offline
‍weißensee, School of Art and Design, Berlin

Concept

Eyes on the Road + Touchscreen = Hybrid interfaces.
Hybrid Interfaces adds a physical dial and a new quality of eyes-off interactions to touch-screens. Dial manipultaion is captured by the capcitive screen just like finger-movement, without the need for additional wiring. Read full concept (1 min)
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Physical Dial on Touch Screen
Hybrid-Interfaces

Supported by

Cockpit

Colorful Audio

See what's currently playing from the corner of your eye

Only a Touch Away

Regardless of where you are in the UI – touching the dial will overlay the sound menu.

Hybrid Gestures

Over 300 Prototypes

Printed Prototypes

Conductive filaments to learn what is possible, then prototyping many iterations to get the dial just right.

Testing Materials

Testing Acrylic and other light-guiding materials to leverage the displaying power of the screen.

Prototyping with Code

Started with processing for proof-of-concept and then graduated to JavaScript.

Snapping Hapticals

Coded Haptics

DIY Haptic Engine

A solenoid powered by a rasberry pie was used to add latching points to the dial.

Digital Haptics

Haptics are no longer mechanical artefact but can be en-coded and designed to fit displayed content.

Prototyping the Buck

Milled Foam Buck

BMW gave me access to their amazing prototyping workshop for the final presentation model.

DIY seating Buck

For early ergonomic tests and the initial sense-making phase, this DIY Buck was vital.

Full Concept

30 second read

Touchscreens all feel the same.
Touchscreens are becoming a dominant method for input.

*Pictures under glass* lack the possibility to create a distinctive visceral User Experience and do not allow the user to build and rely on embodied cognition.
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The Addition of Hapticals (= physical input devices) creates value by enabling interactions on a touchscreen without a direct view and adding a more tangible experience.
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Haptics are low-price and low-complex input devices, that make use of the sensor surface of capacitive touchscreens – no extra wiring required.

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Strong vibrations can add the feeling of latching points to Hapticals – with different articulations depending on the function currently displayed.

The Haptical offers the rich experience of mechanical interaction with the flexibility of over-the-air updates of a purely digital interface.

Based on my explorations, an exemplary cockpit interface for the Infotainment system of semi-autonomous vehicles was developed.
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