Computer-Augmented Stationeries for Human-Skill Support

We present an approach to support human skills of using common stationeries through computer augmentation. We focused on the features of materials being used in each stationery such as the conductivity of the scissors metal blades and clay erasers capability of mixing with carbon fiber and being molded into desired shapes. Our first system, enchanted scissors, is a digitally controlled pair of scissors. It restricts areas that can be cut while requiring the user’s exertion of force and decision to execute each cut. It has varieties of usage from opening a letter to creating a complicated paper craft. Our second system is an eraser prototype with visual and haptic feedback to inform the users if they are erasing properly and the amount erased. Both of our systems provide real-time feedback thus allowing a comfortable connection of the user’s physical input and the output implemented by the device.