This paper examines transient electronics, ubiquitous biosensing and design in the context of the biodegradable material silk. The intersection of these disciplines will be demonstrated with the hypothetical application scenario You, I, Silk (UISilk). This design probe furthers the possibilities and probabilities of silken high- tech applications, which might soon enter the human body, for example in form of transient electronics. The speculation on potential impact of silk through the lens of organic and non-digital sensing offers hereby an extended perspective on programmable biomarkers, their potential for Citizen Science and current sensing paradigms.
We present the initial exploration of using ForceForm, a dynamically deformable interactive surface, for an application in the medical domain. ForceForm provides direct dynamic interaction which is soft and malleable. We are interested in pursuing its use as a training tool in medical scenarios which involve the direct interaction with human skin. As an example of this, we have developed a palpation training application. Previous work in this area uses haptic devices which do not have the soft and direct interaction exhibited by ForceForm. This workshop paper details our palpation application and a discussion of the findings of an expert user consultation involving a doctor and a massage therapist.
The smart hair is the basic component of the hairlytop interface, which is a visual/haptic interface patterned with smart hair. The hair is composed of shape memory alloy(s), drive circuit(s), and light sensor(s) capable of controlling their bending. The bending of each smart hair is controlled through the intensity of light from below. The high flexibility in its configuration and unique motion enables us to construct various types of interface. In this paper, we describe details about several prototypes of the hairlytop interface. In addition, we also report experimental results from an evaluation of the accuracy in flex-control of the smart hairs.
Origami is one of the traditional creative activities in Japan. In recent years, its artistic quality is highly evaluated. Some origami works use LEDs, muscle wires or other electronic components. The authors paid attention to the colors of origami and produced color-changing one. We held a workshop for the color-changing origami to get a lot of origami works from the participants. Our origami uses thermochromic ink and conductive ink and it can be folded in the same manner as paper origami since it does not contain any hard electronic components. This document describes the details of the electronic origami, its works, impression of the users and the future vision. This to
In this paper we give an overview of the work done on the methodology of using smart material interfaces as it appears in the literature until now. We address the opportunities offered by smart materials as they have been exploited by other researchers who created smart material interfaces. We do so by surveying smart materials by kind and by looking at how they have been exploited.
