Force-responsive Deformable User Interfaces

Project Information

FORCE-UI

Grant agreement ID: 853063

DOI

10.3030/853063

Project closed

EC signature date 21 November 2019

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 422 060,00

EU contribution

€ 1 422 060,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF BATH
United Kingdom

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Publications

Conference proceedings (13)

It Sounds Squishy: Understanding Cross-Modal Correspondences of Deformable Shapes and Sounds

Author(s): Maisie Palmer, Thomas J. Mitchell, Jason Alexander, Cameron Steer
Published in: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2025, Page(s) 766-788
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3715336.3735797

HydroHaptics: High-Fidelity Force-Feedback on Soft Deformable Interfaces using Hydrostatic Transmission

Author(s): James Nash, Kim Sauvé, Catharina Maria van Riet, Anke van Oosterhout, Adwait Sharma, Christopher Clarke, Jason Alexander
Published in: Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2025, Page(s) 1-20
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3746059.3747679

Beyond Vacuuming: How Can We Exploit Domestic Robots' Idle Time?

Author(s): Yoshiaki Shiokawa, Winnie Chen, Aditya Shekhar Nittala, Jason Alexander, Adwait Sharma
Published in: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025, Page(s) 1-17
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3706598.3714266

Feel the Force, See the Force: Exploring Visual-Tactile Associations of Deformable Surfaces with Colours and Shapes

Author(s): Cameron Steer, Teodora Dinca, Crescent Jicol, Michael J Proulx, and Jason Alexander
Published in: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Issue 2023, 2023
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3580830

DeformIO: Dynamic Stiffness Control on a Deformable Force-sensing Display

Author(s): James David Nash, Cameron Steer, Teodora Dinca, Adwait Sharma, Alvaro Favaratto Santos, Benjamin Timothy Wildgoose, Alexander Ager, Christopher Clarke, Jason Alexander
Published in: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024, Page(s) 1-8
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3613905.3650772

Physicalization from Theory to Practice: Exploring Contemporary Challenges for Physicalization Design

Author(s): Kim Sauvé, Hans Brombacher, Rosa van Koningsbruggen, Annemiek Veldhuis, Steven Houben, Jason Alexander
Published in: Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2024, Page(s) 368-371
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3656156.3658381

Exploring Co-Located Interactions with a Shape-Changing Bar Chart

Author(s): Miriam Sturdee, Hayat Kara, and Jason Alexander
Published in: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Issue 2023, 2023
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3581214

Transforcers: Exploring Information Communication through Surface-based Force Interactions

Author(s): Kim Sauvé, James Nash, Sunmi Lawal, Owen Chow, Alvaro Favaratto Santos, Jason Alexander
Published in: DIS 2026, 2026
Publisher: ACM

Manifesting Breath: Empirical Evidence for the Integration of Shape-Changing Biofeedback-Based Artefacts within Digital Mental Health Interventions

Author(s): Alexz Farrall, Jordan Taylor, Ben Ainsworth, and Jason Alexander
Published in: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Issue 2023, 2023
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3581188

Investigating the Benefits of Physical Models for Anatomical Education in Augmented Reality

Author(s): Matthew Wragg, Raj Sengupta, Dario Cazzola, Jason Alexander
Published in: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025, Page(s) 1-19
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3706598.3713733

Encouraging Breath: Increasing Out‑of‑Session DMHI Engagement using a Shape‑Changing Biofeedback Physicalization within a Longitudinal RCT

Author(s): Alexz Farrall, Adwait Sharma, Ben Ainsworth, Pamela Jacobsen, Jason Alexander
Published in: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026, Page(s) 1-17
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3772318.3790933

How to Evaluate Object Selection and Manipulation in VR? Guidelines from 20 Years of Studies

Author(s): Bergström, J., Dalsgaard, T-S., Alexander, J. and Hornbæk, K
Published in: CHI 2021, 2021
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3411764.3445193

Squishy, Yet Satisfying: Exploring Deformable Shapes' Cross-Modal Correspondences with Colours and Emotions

Author(s): Cameron Steer, Kim Sauvé, Anika Jain, Omosunmisola Lawal, Michael J Proulx, Crescent Jicol, Jason Alexander
Published in: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024, Page(s) 1-20
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3641952

Peer reviewed articles (1)

Investigating the Impact of Deformable, Movable, and Rigid Surfaces on Force-Input Interactions

Author(s): James Nash, Kim Sauvé, Adwait Sharma, Christopher Clarke, Jason Alexander
Published in: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Issue 32, 2025, Page(s) 1-57, ISSN 1073-0516
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3736409