TEI 2015 Studio Interactive Inflatables

Neidlinger, Kristin; Dertien, Edwin

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“…A dedicated graphical interface allowing to select, position, and connect components to a configuration that then generates Arduino code would be an example for such a design effort to take. As another example, one of the authors designed through a number of editions of a tinkering workshop on inflatables, a papercup construction with a powerful copter motor and fan as the easyto-use core technology for inflation (Neidlinger and Dertien, 2015;Dertien and Neidlinger, 2016).…”

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“…Inflatables or inflatable wearables have been explored (e.g., Neidlinger and Dertien, 2015), inspired by the soft robotics toolbox (Holland et al, 2014). Also McKibben muscles make use of pneumatics to provide touch through pressure, and can be integrated in textile (Backe et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although pneumatic bladders or McKibben actuators are more complex to design and integrate than the previously mentioned vibration motors, build, construction, and control have proven to be possible within the bounds of a tinkering session. For example a one-day workshop is typically enough for exploring components, conceptualizing and designing a functional prototype, as demonstrated during a workshop at TEI (Neidlinger and Dertien, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Tinkering with social touch technology

Mader

Dertien

Weda

et al. 2023

Front. Comput. Sci.

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Social touch technology, haptic technology to mediate social touch interactions, potentially contributes to reducing negative effects of skin hunger and social isolation. This field is developing and while there are a number of prototypes, few became products and less persisted in the market today. Viable social touch technology is essential for research on social touch and it has an unexplored market potential. Making prototypes and evaluating them is the approach of generating knowledge in Research through Design (RtD). In RtD, researchers investigate the speculative future, probing on what the world could and should be, leaving the exact method of designing prototypes open. One possible method is tinkering, characterized by a playful and creative exploration. Tinkering environments, however, need a careful design of toolkits and setting. In this study, we report on the toolkit and setup we used for a tinkering-based teaching unit on social touch technology, held within an introductory course of an Interaction Technology master program, and describe the resulting prototypes. With a qualitative analysis of the results, we consider the teaching unit as a success, w.r.t. the diversity of the concepts developed. Tinkering is well-known as a playful method for education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths, aiming at school children and high school students. It is not yet established as a design method in itself, and not considered as element of an academic skill set. Here, we argue that tinkering is a valuable design method in the context of social touch technology, and that it has a place in the design approaches within an academic setting. In a further step, we also want to include experts from other domains in the design process, such as psychologists or fashion designers. For that end, we suggest expanding a current toolkit for wearable technology with concepts from the teaching unit, more scaffolding tools, a variety of tactile actuators, and a software tool that allow for (re)configuring designs rather than programing them.

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Tinkering with social touch technology

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Dertien

Weda

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“…The use of pneumatics for shape-changing interfaces is currently gaining a lot of interest in the HCI community, e.g. [24,26,40]. In AWElectric, we continue pursuing our idea of amplifying emotions using inflatables that we have been investigating during a series of workshops and experiments [24].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…[24,26,40]. In AWElectric, we continue pursuing our idea of amplifying emotions using inflatables that we have been investigating during a series of workshops and experiments [24].…”

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AWElectric

Neidlinger¹,

Truong

Telfair

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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Awe is a powerful, visceral sensation described as a sudden chill or shudder accompanied by goosebumps. People feel awe in the face of extraordinary experiences: the sublimity of nature, the beauty of art and music, the adrenaline rush of fear. Awe is healthy, both physically and mentally. It can be shared by people who are witnessing the same phenomenon, but traditionally it cannot be communicated remotely across time or distance: to feel awe involves real time experience, and explaining the experience that gave rise to it does not always induce the feeling of awe itself. We want to make this sensation something that can be transmitted, and therefore present AWElectric, a wearable interface that can detect awe, enhance it, and create it in another person. Our shared goosebump design embeds inflatable biometric displays in 3D print fabric. The AudioTactile fabric transmits an awe-inducing sound frequency to the partner that physically manifests the tingles, chills, and goosebumps that awe provokes.

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TEI 2015 Studio Interactive Inflatables

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