Touching Projected Agents through the DAT Screen -System Design and Questions of Interaction Boundaries-
Touching Projected Agents through the DAT Screen -System Design and Questions of Interaction Boundaries-
This work describes the Desktop Amid Touch (DAT) screen, a system combining spatial projection on a deformable mesh with touch sensing and motorized resistance control. Initial prototypes detected single touches by estimating position and depth from tension changes, while subsequent versions added motorized tension control to vary indentation resistance. The paper outlines these implementations and demonstrations, distinguishing observed capabilities from open design questions regarding whether virtual agents should exhibit preferences or boundaries during interaction.
The paper presents a system design for the Desktop Amid Touch (DAT) screen that integrates spatial projection, touch sensing, and motorized resistance control to simulate physical interaction with virtual agents, while explicitly noting that user interpretation of agent refusal or consent remains an open research question.
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arXiv:2611.02525v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Touching a virtual agent involves more than detecting a finger on a display: the contact surface can deform and resist the user's push, and the agent can respond to that action. We describe the Desktop Amid Touch (DAT) screen, which combines spatial projection onto a semi-transparent, deformable mesh with touch sensing and motorized control of resistance to indentatio
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n. An initial prototype detected a single touch and estimated its position and depth from tension changes around a flexible projection screen. A subsequent prototype added motorized tension control to vary the screen's resistance to indentation. We describe the tension-controlled DAT implementation and its demonstrations, distinguishing what has been observed from what remains an open design question. These capabilit
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ies raise a design question: should touchable virtual agents respond as though they had preferences or boundaries, and under what conditions should such behavior be implemented on systems like DAT. The present paper describes a system and frames this question; it does not establish how users interpret an agent's refusal or consent.
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Touching Projected Agents through the DAT Screen -System Design and Questions of Interaction Boundaries-
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