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Living Knitwork Pavilion

​2023 Burning Man Arts"Once upon a time, in the heart of the Black Rock City desert, a knitted shade structure seamlessly melded ancient an…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Nicole Bakker +3 more
#design #architecture #art +4 more
Project Research

3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +17 more
Project Research

SensorNets

SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained  Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins.SensorNets is a bioin…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Elena Kodama +2 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +10 more
Project Research

Space Fabrics: resilient electronic textiles for distributed sensing in low Earth orbit

Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. S…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Juliana Cherston
#design #architecture #consumer electronics +14 more
Project Research

aSpire: Clippable, Mobile Pneumatic-Haptic Device for Breathing Rate Regulation via Personalizable Tactile Feedback

We introduce–aSpire–a clippable, mobile pneumatic-haptic device designed to help users regulate their breathing rate via subtle tactile fee…

Kyung Yun Choi · Neska Elhaouij +3 more
#design #human-computer interaction #health +3 more
Project Research

TESSERAE: Self-Assembling Space Architecture

Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will enscon…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw
#robotics #design #agriculture +12 more
Project Research

KnittedKeyboard II

Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and mu…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Mike Hao Jiang +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +11 more
Project Research

DefeXtiles: 3D printing quasi-woven textiles via underextrusion

OverviewDefeXtiles are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpensiv…

in Tangible Media
Jack Forman · Hiroshi Ishii
#design #human-computer interaction #fashion +4 more
Project Research

Therms-Up!: DIY Inflatables and Interactive Materials by Upcycling Wasted Thermoplastic Bags

Therms-Up! is a DIY method of creating inflatables and prototyping interactive materials from wasted thermoplastic bags that easily found a…

in Tangible Media
Kyung Yun Choi · Hiroshi Ishii
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +5 more
Project Research

On-Face Olfactory Interfaces

We envision that a close-to-nose interface could be used as a complementary or alternative wearable method to nasal cannulas or masks,…

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Judith Amores Fernandez +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #consumer electronics +6 more
Project Research

Doze: On-skin Scent Diffusion and Drug Delivery Patch

Doze is an IoT enabled platform for personalized scent diffusion and on-skin drug delivery. Leveraging a hydrogel technology, the Doze syst…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono
#human-computer interaction #bioengineering #consumer electronics +7 more
Project Research

Floral Cosmonauts: Self-assembling silver dendrite networks in microgravity

Biological neuronal networks are highly complex and interconnected with superior information processing capabilities. Such networks have pr…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Harpreet Sareen
#design #manufacturing #space +3 more
Project Research

Bubble Talk: Translating the presence of modern digital chat into fleeting bubbles

In this project the ephemeral and intangible aspects of human communication are represented by a soap-bubble. The shapeless, intangibl…

in Tangible Media
Kyung Yun Choi
#design #art #fabrication
Project Research

Space Webs as Infrastructure for distributed sensor networks and other infrastructure on low gravity bodies

We study textiles and nets as a base form for growing infrastructure and allowing reconfigurable sensing on low gravity bodies (for instanc…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Juliana Cherston · Paul Strohmeier
#design #architecture #art +7 more

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