DanielLeithinger

  • Visiting Assistant Professor
  • THING Lab
  • SHAPE CHANGING & HAPTIC INTERFACES
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE
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ATLS 207C

Daniel Leithinger, assistant professor (ATLAS Institute & Computer Science)creates shape-changing human computer interfaces that push digital information past the boundaries of flat displays, and into the real world. Motivated by the belief that computers must embrace the dexterity and expressivenessof the human body, his interfaces allow users to touch, grasp and deform data physically. Daniel received his PhD at the MIT Media Lab in 2015. His academic publications have been published atACM UIST, TEI and CHI conferences, and he hasreceived design awards from Fast Company, Red Dotand IDEA. Projects like "inFORM" have been exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, Ars Electronica Museum, and the Milan Design Week.

For more information about DanielLeithinger'spast work with the Tangible Media Group at the MITMedia lab,visit .

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Publications

Yuzhen Zhang, Ruixiang Han, Ran Zhou, Peter Gyory, Clement Zheng, Patrick C. Shih, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Malte F. Jung, Wendy Ju, Daniel Leithinger. 2024. “Wizard of Props: Mixed Reality Prototyping with Physical Props toDesign Responsive Environments”. In:. (February 11-14, 2024)

C. L. Hunt, K. Sun, Z. Dhuliawala, F. Tsukiyama, I. Matkovic, Z. Schwemier, A. Wolf, Z. Zhang, A. Druin, A. Huynh,D. Leithinger, J. Yip. 2023. “”. In:ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC '23)(Chicago, IL, June 19-23, 2023).

Ran Zhou,Zachary Schwemler, Akshay Baweja, Harpreet Sareen,Casey Lee Hunt, andDaniel Leithinger. 2023. "". In:Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).

Cathy Mengying Fang, Ryo Suzuki, andDaniel Leithinger. 2023. "". In:Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).

Ran Zhou,Zachary Schwemler, Akshay Baweja, Harpreet Sareen,Casey Lee Hunt, andDaniel Leithinger. 2023. "". In:Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).

Suibi Che–Chuan Weng,Torin Hopkins,Rishi Vanukuru,Chad Tobin,Amy Banic,​​Daniel Leithinger, andEllen Yi–Luen Do. 2023. “”. In:2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)(Shanghai, China, March 25-29, 2023).

Ran Zhou, Harpreet Sareen, Yufei Zhang, andDaniel Leithinger.2022. EmotiTactor: Exploring How Designers Approach Emotional Robotic Touch. InDesigning Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1330–1344..pdf

(June 13-17, 2022—Virtual Event, Australia)[Best Pictorial Honorable Mention].

Hooman Hedayati,RyoSuzuki,Wyatt Rees,Daniel Leithinger, andDaniel Szafir. 2022.. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. vol. 9. DOI=10.3389/frobt.2022.719639 (April 11, 2022).

Ryo Suzuki, Eyal Ofek, Mike Sinclair,Daniel Leithinger, and Mar Gonzalez-Franco. 2021.. InThe Adjunct Publication of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 131–133. DOI:(Virtual–Oct.10-14, 2021).

Purnendu,Sasha M Novack, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger,Mirela Alistar,Mark D Gross,Carson Bruns, andDaniel Leithinger. 2021. Electriflow: Soft Electrohydraulic Building Blocks for Prototyping Shape-changing Interfaces.Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1280–1290. DOI:(June 28-July 2,2021–Virtual Event).

Purnendu, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger,Mark D. Gross,Carson Bruns,Daniel Leithinger.2021. Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators for Origami Inspired Shape-Changing Interfaces. InCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts(CHI '21 Extended Abstracts). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages.. (Yokohama, Japan–May 8-13, 2021).

Hooman Hedayati,Ryo Suzuki,Daniel Leithinger,Daniel J. Szafir. 2020. PufferBot: Actuated Expandable Structures for Aerial Robots. InProceedings of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020).DOI:. (Las Vegas, Nevada–Oct.25-29, 2020).

Ryo Suzuki, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Li-Yi Wei, Stephen DiVerdi, Wilmot Li, andDaniel Leithinger. 2020. RealitySketch: Embedding Responsive Graphics and Visualizations in AR through Dynamic Sketching. InProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. DOI:(Minneapolis, Minnesota–Oct. 20-23, 2020)[Honorable Mention Paper Award].

Ryo Suzuki,Hooman Hedayati,Clement Zheng, James Bohn,Daniel Szafir,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Mark D Gross, andDaniel Leithinger. 2020. RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots. InProceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 396, 11 pages. DOI: (Honolulu, Hawaii–April 25-30, 2020).

Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi,Mark D. Gross, andDaniel Leithinger. 2020. LiftTiles: Constructive Building Blocks for Prototyping Room-scale Shape-changing Interfaces. InProceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Pages 143–151. DOI:(Sydney, Australia–Feb. 9-12, 2020).

Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi,Mark D. Gross, andDaniel Leithinger.2019.LiftTiles: Modular and Reconfigurable Room-scale Shape Displays through Retractable Inflatable Actuators.In Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '19).ACM, New York, NY, USA,1-3. DOI: (New Orleans, Louisiana – Oct. 20-23, 2019).

Ryo Suzuki,Clement Zheng, Yasuaki Kakehi,Tom Yeh,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Mark D. Gross,Daniel Leithinger. 2019. ShapeBots: Shape-changing Swarm Robots. InProceedings of The 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology(UIST'19).(New Orleans, LA—Oct. 20-23, 2019).

Peter Gyory,Clement Zheng,Daniel Leithinger, andEllen Yi-Luen Do. 2019. HOT SWAP: Probing Embodied Game Interfaces With Reconfigurable Controllers. InCompanion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion(DIS '19 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 183-187. DOI:.(San Diego, CA, USA—June 23-28, 2019).

Clement Zheng,Jeeeun Kim,Daniel Leithinger,Mark D Gross,&Ellen Yi-Luen Do.2019.Mechamagnets: Designing and Fabricating Haptic and Functional Physical Inputs with Embedded Magnets. InProceedings of Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction(TEI’19), p. 325-334.

Ryo Suzuki, Junichi Yamaoka,Daniel Leithinger,Tom Yeh,Mark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Yasuaki Kakehi. 2018.Dynablock: Dynamic 3D Printing for Instant and Reconstructable Shape Formation. InProceedings of The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'18).DOI:(Berlin, Germany—Oct.14-17, 2018).

Udayan Umapathi, Patrick Shin, Ken Nakagaki,Daniel Leithinger,and Hiroshi Ishii. 2018. Programmable Droplets for Interaction. InExtended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI EA '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA. DOI:(Montreal QC, Canada—April 21-26, 2018).

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