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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 ...

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

Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indi...

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Don Derek Haddad
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +14 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 ...

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #human-computer interaction #entertainment +9 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 inexpens...

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

Aguahoja II

Aguahoja II builds upon the platform technology of its predecessor, enabling large-scale multi-material 3D printing with abundant, organi...

in Mediated Matter
Nicolas Hogan · Ramon Weber +4 more
#design #art #biology +1 more
Project Research

Aguahoja III

Aguahoja III expands the capabilities of a broad library of sustainable, organic 3D materials with generative patterns that countervail s...

in Mediated Matter
Nicolas Hogan · Joao Pedro Goncalves Marins Costa +2 more
#design #architecture #art +3 more
Project Research

Breathing Garment: A respiratory regulation garment for voice pedagogy

Using OmniFiber technology, we fabricated a type of undergarment that singers can wear to monitor and play back the movement of respirato...

in Tangible Media
Ozgun Kilic Afsar · Hiroshi Ishii
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +6 more
Project Research

OmniFiber: Strain-tunable Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Soft Robotic Textiles and Autonomous Garments

OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop str...

in Tangible Media
Ozgun Kilic Afsar · Hila Mor +5 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +6 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....

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Juliana Cherston
#design #architecture #environment +12 more
Project Research

Venous Materials: Towards interactive, fluidic mechanisms

By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way t...

in Tangible Media
Hila Mor · Hiroshi Ishii +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #manufacturing +4 more
Project Research

Aguahoja

Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...

in Mediated Matter
Jorge Duro-Royo · Joshua Van Zak +11 more
#design #architecture #art +7 more
Project Research

A tailored, electronic textile conformable suit for large-scale spatiotemporal physiological sensing in vivo

The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. ...

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren · Irmandy Wicaksono
#design #bioengineering #consumer electronics +13 more
Project Research

Material Functionalization

When materials sciences meet HCI and e-textiles, for custom sensors and actuatorsIn this project we explore the process of polymerization...

in Responsive Environments · Tangible Media
Cedric Honnet · Paul Strohmeier +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #wearable computing +2 more
Project Research

MASKproject: Open standard respirator, N95 alternative face mask

Designed for mass manufacture and rapid deployment, we are building an open hardware, reusable, sterilizable, modular, and filter-media a...

in Biomechatronics
Che-Wei Wang · Matthew Carney
#manufacturing #public health #materials +1 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 sy...

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

Attentive Electronic Skins For Low Power, Multifunctional Operation

​We imagine equipping electronic skins with a sense of attention in order to operate more efficiently in resource constrained environment...

in Responsive Environments
Juliana Cherston
#sensors #electrical engineering #materials
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 insta...

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

SensorNets

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

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Elena Kodama +2 more
#design #human-computer interaction #augmented reality +6 more

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