Rendering Emotions with a Wrist-worn Tactile Display
This paper investigates whether tactile texture patterns on the wrists can be interpreted as particular emotions. A prototype watch-back tactile display, MOTUS, was implemented to press different texture patterns in various frequencies onto a wrist to convey emotions. We conducted a preliminary guessability study with the prototype. The result reveals the wearers’ agreement in interpreting the emotional states from the tactile texture patterns.
First Person Speculation in the (Imaginary) Everyday
Recent development in space exploration has focused on the possibility of human life on Mars. How can we design for such an unexplored environment, and in turn what might such designs tell us about designing for the everyday on Earth? We make use of a process of speculative first-person design to create a material playground for producing a set of printed textile structures to support the experience of Martian daily wear, while paying attention to Earthly concerns such as material scarcity and locality of resources. This pictorial describes the outcomes of this process with a focus on the notions personal safety, empowerment, and comfort. The contribution is a design exemplar of first-person design in an extreme context that suggests the use of the playful speculation of space travel to ultimately explore human experience and values on everyday Earth.
Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Programmable and Reversible Shape-Changing Behaviors
This work aims to provide early-stage insights into an electro-thermally actuated liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) fiber for novel shape-changing behaviors that are both programmable and reversible. We build a control system and experimentally investigate the electro-thermal characteristics and actuation, identifying four categories of fiber behavior: Oscillating Tip, Oscillating Fiber, Tilting and Bending. These key parameters illustrate the broad application potential of the proposed approach within a functional, communication and expressive context. Our contributions are threefold a.) the control of an electro-thermal responsive LCE fiber, b.) directions for soft robotic device integration c.) early-stage insights into fiber shape-changing behaviors towards application.
ISWC ’21: 2021 International Symposium on Wearable Computers
IASDR ‘ 22
CHI EA ’22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Exploring the Tangibility of Intelligent Agents Through Shape-change in the context of shopping clothes online
