Interactive 3D Tangible Display with a High-Speed Stiffness-Variable Jamming Module

Abstract:Multisensory integration, particularly through visual and tactile feedback, plays a crucial role in enhancing audience engagement with artworks. Although recent research has increasingly explored tactile experiences in art, existing systems often lack real-time variable stiffness modulation and depend on bulky mechanical infrastructures. In this work, we propose a novel tangible display based on a magnetic jamming mechanism, enabling real-time, low-noise, and low-voltage stiffness modulation integrated into traditional sculptural artworks. Our system combines visual motion and dynamic tactile feedback within a compact standalone module, allowing audiences to interactively experience variations in the rigidity and form of features such as those found in the traditional Korean mask Hahoetal. This approach offers a new paradigm for interactive art, enabling more immersive, multisensory engagement through the fusion of cultural artifacts and modern technology. Our project page is available at this https URL.

8 pages, 7 figures. Exhibited at the ICRA 2025 Arts in Robotics

Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Robotics (cs.RO)

arXiv:2607.15325 [cs.HC]

(or arXiv:2607.15325v1 [cs.HC] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.15325 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite

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