Poppable display: A display that enables popping, breaking, and tearing interactions with people

We previously developed a display using a soap film as a screen. This screen can display various appearances of the projected images by changing its reflectance property by controlling ultrasound waves. Further, the soap film has other advantages of being very thin and disposable. This research aims to make use of these advantages to realize new interactions with a display. The soap screen pops out and breaks. Users can insert their fingers into the screen. When the screen breaks, it can be replaced easily. This display is expected to contribute to entertainment computing communities by acting as a deformable and physically interactive display. In this paper, the details of the proposed display, the related experimental results, discussion and future work are presented.