MagicWand: Exploring Physical Affordances with a Handheld Cylindrical Display Object

We introduce MagicWand, a cylindrical handheld display object made out of 2 Flexible Organic Light-Emitting Diode (FOLED) screens. Magic Wand features a smartphone running the Android operating system. Gesture recognition allows movements of the wand as a form of input. We were interested in exploring how a cylindrical form factor might offer physical affordances for action that are quite different from those of a traditional flat smartphone. We present an application scenario where MagicWand is used as a game controller that can display a variety of 3D game elements.