MagicPAPER

Touch interaction is usually implemented on a computer screen or a projected surface. However, tactile quality of paper is attractive and intuitive for people to manipulate in traditional paintings and storytelling. In order to enable touch interaction on paper, we present MagicPAPER, a shadow-art device that consists of a pen, kraft paper, a projector, a gesture sensing device, and a software system. With the purpose of illustrating how MagicPAPER effectively integrates the art-design process with the computer and communication technology, we have developed eight interactive applications simply based on kraft paper and mark pen: the Dimension Door, Balls, Palette, Flat Cube, Piano, Color potion, Fast mask- changing, and Candle. Finally, we experimented with MagicPAPER and demonstrated its interactive effects by detecting the gesture of a finger and pen on kraft paper and projecting it into eight interactive applications. Our research results show that MagicPAPER successfully carries out paper-based touch interactions.