SATIN
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- Full name
- Sound And Tangible Interfaces for Novel product design
- Acronym
- SATIN
- Website
- http://www.satin-project.eu/
- Keywords
- multimodal, haptics, sound, product design
- Budget
- €
- Start date
- October 2006
- End date
- September 2009
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Partners
- Italdesign - Giugiaro S.p.A. [1]
- Politecnico di Milano
- think3
- MOOG-FCS
- INESC-ID
- Eindhoven Univ. of Technology
- University of Nottingham
- Alessi
- Steklarna Hrastnick
Funding Bodies
- FP6 IST Programme of the European Union, http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/
Contact
- Monica Bordegoni (mailto:monica.bordegoni@polimi.it)
- Katia Bianciotto (mailto:katia.bianciotto@italdesign.itl)
Objectives
The conceptual design phase of new products having an aesthetic value presents several critical issues that contribute in making the overall design process costly and time consuming. Computer aided industrial design tools support designers and ideas but are still today too technical and lacking of intuitive user interfaces.
The goal of the SATIN project is to develop and test innovative interfaces for conceptual product design. These interfaces will be used by designers for exploring and evaluating, and also modifying digital shapes through free-hand interaction that allows the exploitation of designers' existing skills.
The project is based on new multimodal interaction paradigms where visual, haptic and sound modalities are fused together in order to provide designers with information about shape properties in response to evaluation and modification activities.
SATIN system consists of an Augmented Reality environment where the user can see 3D shapes, touch those shapes and also explore multiple geometric properties of shapes by means of metaphoric sounds.
Main Results
End Users
- Italdesign - Giugiaro S.p.A. [2]
- Alessi
- Steklarna Hrastnik
