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- extended-abstractJuly 2024
PneuExtensio: Designing Pneumatic-based Bodily Extensions to Facilitate Embodiment across Everyday Life Experiences
DIS '24 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems ConferenceJuly 2024, Pages 19–23https://doi.org/10.1145/3656156.3665136Bodily augmentations have been increasingly investigated by HCI researchers due to the associated benefits, such as accessibility, offering novel input space, and sensing environment. Most of these investigations have adopted a utilitarian perspective, ...
- Work in ProgressMay 2024
PneuMa: Designing Pneumatic Bodily Extensions for Supporting Movement in Everyday Life
CHI EA '24: Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsMay 2024, Article No.: 645, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3649125Prior research around the design of interactive systems has highlighted the benefits of supporting embodiment in everyday life. This resulted in the creation of body-centric systems that leverage movement. However, these advances supporting movement in ...
- research-articleFebruary 2024
PneuMa: Designing Pneumatic Bodily Extensions for Supporting Movement in Everyday Life
TEI '24: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied InteractionFebruary 2024, Article No.: 1, Pages 1–16https://doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3633349Prior research around the design of interactive systems has highlighted the benefits of supporting embodiment in everyday life. This resulted in the creation of body-centric systems that leverage movement. However, these advances supporting movement in ...
- posterOctober 2023
Pneunocchio: A playful nose augmentation for facilitating embodied representation
- Aryan Saini,
- Srihari Sridhar,
- Aarushi Raheja,
- Rakesh Patibanda,
- Nathalie Overdevest,
- Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang,
- Elise Van Den Hoven,
- Florian Floyd Mueller
UIST '23 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and TechnologyOctober 2023, Article No.: 40, Pages 1–3https://doi.org/10.1145/3586182.3616651Prior research has offered a plethora of wearables centred around sensing bodily actions ranging from more explicit data, such as movement and physiological response, to implicit information, such as ocular and brain activity. Bodily augmentations that ...
- research-articleApril 2023
What Can a Robot’s Skin Be? Designing Texture-changing Skin for Human–Robot Social Interaction
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), Volume 12, Issue 2Article No.: 26, Pages 1–19https://doi.org/10.1145/3532772Biological skin has numerous functions like protection, sensing, expression, and regulation. On the contrary, a robot’s skin is usually regarded as a passive and static separation between the body and environment. In this article, we explore the design ...
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- extended-abstractJune 2021
HUG
C&C '21: Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Creativity and CognitionJune 2021, Article No.: 60, Page 1https://doi.org/10.1145/3450741.3464392HUG is a pneumatic garment that creates a sensation of a hug without the proximity of another person. It is inspired by “hugging” garments, used in so-called deep-pressure therapy, imitating the structure of embodied human empathy.
- posterSeptember 2019
Pneuxels: a platform for physically manifesting object-based crowd interactions in large scales
UbiComp/ISWC '19 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable ComputersSeptember 2019, Pages 45–48https://doi.org/10.1145/3341162.3343828We often perceive other peoples' presence implicitly, through the traces of their interactions with physical objects. What if our urban environments could mediate these traces allowing remotely located people perceive each other's presence collectively? ...
- research-articleSeptember 2019
Tight Times: Semantics and Distractibility of Pneumatic Compression Feedback for Wearable Devices
MuC '19: Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2019September 2019, Pages 411–419https://doi.org/10.1145/3340764.3340796Notifications on wrist worn devices can be delivered visual, auditory or haptic. Haptic notifications are hands and eyes-free and at the same time discrete. As an alternative to vibrotactile notifications we explore the use of compression notifications ...
- abstractJuly 2019
Liquid printed pneumatics
SIGGRAPH '19: ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Emerging TechnologiesJuly 2019, Article No.: 16, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3305367.3340318Liquid Printed Pneumatics is a project developed by the MIT, Self-Assembly Lab and Swiss designer Christophe Guberan that focuses on the 3D printing of pneumatically activated objects. Rapid Liquid Printing (RLP), a new additive manufacturing process ...
- abstractJune 2019
Natura Machina: Teenage Meadow
C&C '19: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Creativity and CognitionJune 2019, Pages 432–435https://doi.org/10.1145/3325480.3329169Natura Machina: Teenage Meadow symbiotically combines plants and robotics in a harmonious relationship as part of a long-term goal of creating art that is simultaneously a new life form that can exist in nature.
The work consists of silicone rubber ...
- Work in ProgressMarch 2019
Auto-adjustable Bra for Women with a Pronounced Alteration in Breast Volume
TEI '19: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied InteractionMarch 2019, Pages 429–435https://doi.org/10.1145/3294109.3300982The auto-adjustable bra combines new technologies such as soft robotics, computational design, and e-textiles to develop a bra which uses a pneumatic system to compensate severe asymmetries in breast volume (Anisomastia). In the present work, the bra ...
- research-articleMay 2017
Squeezeback: Pneumatic Compression for Notifications
CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsMay 2017, Pages 5318–5330https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025526Current mobile devices commonly use vibration feedback to signal incoming notifications. However, vibration feedback exhibits strong attention capture, limiting its use to short periods and prominent notifications. Instead, we investigate the use of ...
- research-articleJanuary 2016
A novel type of compliant and underactuated robotic hand for dexterous grasping
International Journal of Robotics Research (RBRS), Volume 35, Issue 1-3Jan 2016, Pages 161–185https://doi.org/10.1177/0278364915592961The usefulness and versatility of a robotic end-effector depends on the diversity of grasps it can accomplish and also on the complexity of the control methods required to achieve them. We believe that soft hands are able to ...
- extended-abstractApril 2015
Wrist Compression Feedback by Pneumatic Actuation
CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 2015, Pages 315–318https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2725427Most common forms of haptic feedback use vibration, which immediately captures the user's attention, yet is limited in the range of strengths it can achieve. Vibration feedback over extended periods also tends to be annoying. We present compression ...
- research-articleApril 2015
3D Printing Pneumatic Device Controls with Variable Activation Force Capabilities
CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 2015, Pages 1295–1304https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702569We explore 3D printing physical controls whose tactile response can be manipulated programmatically through pneumatic actuation. In particular, by manipulating the internal air pressure of various pneumatic elements, we can create mechanisms that ...
- research-articleFebruary 2014
Awakened apparel: embedded soft actuators for expressive fashion and functional garments
TEI '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied InteractionFebruary 2014, Pages 77–80https://doi.org/10.1145/2540930.2540958Each morning we select an outfit meant to suit our mood and our plans. What if our clothes could seamlessly morph with us as our attitudes and activities change throughout the day? We created Awakened Apparel; one of the first shape-changing fashions to ...
- ArticleJanuary 2010
Pneumatics and Electro-pneumatic Control Laboratory
IC4E '10: Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-LearningJanuary 2010, Pages 651–654https://doi.org/10.1109/IC4E.2010.156Production system pneumatics control laboratory serve for teaching automatic control principles and programming in flexible production via various control modes often used in the technical practice. In this laboratory there are applied real elements of ...
- ArticleFebruary 2007
Spatializing real time interactive environments
TEI '07: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Tangible and embedded interactionFebruary 2007, Pages 215–222https://doi.org/10.1145/1226969.1227014The research paper exemplifies upon a series of design-research experiments specifically aimed at developing realtime interactive spatial prototypes. The experimental projects are conceived as architectural design research undertakings, demonstrating a ...
- articleSeptember 2003
Web-based learning and instruction support system for pneumatics
Computers & Education (CEDN), Volume 41, Issue 2September 2003, Pages 107–120https://doi.org/10.1016/S0360-1315(03)00029-0This research presents a Web-based learning and instructional system for Pneumatics. The system includes course material, remote data acquisition modules, and a pneumatic laboratory set. The course material is in the HTML format accompanied with text, ...