[SIGGRAPH 2019] Vidgets: Modular Mechanical Widgets for Mobile Devices

Vidgets: Modular Mechanical Widgets for Mobile Devices by Chang Xiao (Columbia University), Karl Bayer (Snap Inc.), Changxi Zheng (Columbia University) and Shree K. Nayar (Snap Inc.) We present Vidgets, a family of mechanical widgets, including push buttons and rotary knobs that augment mobile devices with tangible user interfaces. When these widgets are attached to a mobile device and a user interacts with them, the widgets’ nonlinear mechanical response shifts the