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A Katana Design Experience

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Intersections in Simulation and Gaming (ISAGA 2016, SimTecT 2016)

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Increases in computation power have allowed design software to become more complex. At the same time, big data and artificial intelligence, question the traditional tools of the human designer. Morphogenetic (concerned with the beginning of the form of an object) prototyping provides a method for designers to control this complexity by separating the design into pseudo developmental stages to enable the manipulation of its development at different stages. This paper investigates the tools, processes, theory and systems that would be needed to simulate this design experience. Through this process a katana sword is selected as the metaphor for the design experience to relate the affordance of cutting to the simulation of a pseudo biological sub division. A sword prototype is used to identify appropriate gestures to map to biological behaviours in order to trigger the simulation of staged pseudo biological processes in the design model. Finally, the tangible user interface (TUI) tool based on the katana sword is refined and future work is outlined.

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This work was funded by the University of South Australia’s Research Themes Investment Scheme.

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  1. University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia

    Tim McGinley, Kei Hoshi, Shane Haddy & David Blaiklock

  2. University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA

    Kei Hoshi & Petra Gruber

  3. The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

    Kei Hoshi & Yannis Zavoleas

  4. Ctrl_Space Lab, Athens, Greece

    Kei Hoshi & Yannis Zavoleas

  5. Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Kei Hoshi & Linus Tan

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  2. Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland

    Marcin Wardaszko

  3. FutureSearch, Tempe, New South Wales, Australia

    Elyssebeth Leigh

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McGinley, T. et al. (2018). A Katana Design Experience. In: Naweed, A., Wardaszko, M., Leigh, E., Meijer, S. (eds) Intersections in Simulation and Gaming. ISAGA SimTecT 2016 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10711. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78795-4_10

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