TY - GEN
T1 - Demonstration of VisRing
T2 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST Adjunct 2025
AU - Liu, Runze
AU - Krauter, Christian
AU - Lu, Taiting
AU - Schulte, Mara
AU - Achberger, Alexander
AU - Blascheck, Tanja
AU - Sedlmair, Michael
AU - Gowda, Mahanth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
PY - 2025/9/27
Y1 - 2025/9/27
N2 - We demonstrate VisRing [12], the first smartring incorporating a bendable 160 × 32 4-bit grayscale organic light-emitting diode display. VisRing stands out by displaying nano visualizations while maintaining a compact design and minimal weight of 6.6 g, with an overall cost of around $35. We exploit opportunities for a system-on-a-chip architecture to tightly integrate an inertial measurement unit, a photo-plethysmograph sensor, a temperature sensor, Bluetooth, a microcontroller, and a display unit that spans 270◦ to 360◦, depending on finger size. Our contributions include the hardware design and implementation of VisRing, along with a software library that supports visualizing various data types. A qualitative study with 12 participants demonstrated the comfort, likability, and social acceptance of VisRing’s hardware and software. The participants liked the visualizations and found the ring lightweight, but also pointed out possible improvements. We will open-source VisRing hardware and software for further development of interesting usage scenarios. The demo will include a showcase of the VisRing system hardware assembly and hands-on and live testing of various VisRing applications, which include message delivery, time display, and health monitoring.
AB - We demonstrate VisRing [12], the first smartring incorporating a bendable 160 × 32 4-bit grayscale organic light-emitting diode display. VisRing stands out by displaying nano visualizations while maintaining a compact design and minimal weight of 6.6 g, with an overall cost of around $35. We exploit opportunities for a system-on-a-chip architecture to tightly integrate an inertial measurement unit, a photo-plethysmograph sensor, a temperature sensor, Bluetooth, a microcontroller, and a display unit that spans 270◦ to 360◦, depending on finger size. Our contributions include the hardware design and implementation of VisRing, along with a software library that supports visualizing various data types. A qualitative study with 12 participants demonstrated the comfort, likability, and social acceptance of VisRing’s hardware and software. The participants liked the visualizations and found the ring lightweight, but also pointed out possible improvements. We will open-source VisRing hardware and software for further development of interesting usage scenarios. The demo will include a showcase of the VisRing system hardware assembly and hands-on and live testing of various VisRing applications, which include message delivery, time display, and health monitoring.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105020852532
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105020852532#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1145/3746058.3758997
DO - 10.1145/3746058.3758997
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105020852532
T3 - UIST Adjunct 2025 - Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
BT - UIST Adjunct 2025 - Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
A2 - Bianchi, Andrea
A2 - Glassman, Elena
A2 - Zhao, Shengdong
A2 - Kim, Jeeeun
A2 - Oakley, Ian
A2 - Mackay, Wendy E.
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 28 September 2025 through 1 October 2025
ER -