The Breathing Wall (BRALL)—Triggering Life (in)animate Surfaces

Budak, Ece Polen; Zırhlı, Onur; Stokes, Adam A.; Akbulut, Özge

doi:10.1162/leon_a_01199

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“…This paper mainly explored the pneumatic textile system in design projects for several reasons. From a technical perspective, pneumatic textiles can provide continuous and easily mouldable deformation, and shapes and volumes can be actuated by the inflation and deflation processes to afford many forms [30]. From the experiential perspective, soft pneumatics is usually perceived as non-threatening, engaging users in tactile interaction.…”

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Autobiographical Design for Emotional Durability through Digital Transformable Fashion and Textiles

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To promote a resilient user-product relationship for sustainable fashion, design methods for emotional durability are required. Digitally transformable fashion design can be seen as a practical approach that enables dynamic, sensory, experiential, and emotional interaction. Literature shows that features of transformable fashion and textiles, such as versatility, perceived quality, biomorphic forms, and aesthetics, can induce emotional durability in users. However, mainstream works are conducted from function-oriented and technology-led perspectives, neglecting the significance of fashion design as a creative and affective role. To fill the gap, we present exhaustive accounts of two autobiographical design projects as case studies: Pneum-Muscle, a body-worn pneumatic wearable, and E-coral, an artistic interactive textile installation. We utilised the first-person soma design method to facilitate the iterative design and unfold the emotional connection between the user and the materials. We contribute technology-embedded fashion design strategies to inspire novice fashion designers, which involve dynamic draping, ambiguous cutting, and sewing technique-based pneumatic systems. Design guidelines generated can shed new light on the artistic use of technologies, somatic design, and the emotionally durable design approach.

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Autobiographical Design for Emotional Durability through Digital Transformable Fashion and Textiles

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“…Soft robotics technology has recently made its way into art, design, and architecture projects (Jørgensen, 2017b;Jørgensen, 2019). Yet adding sound to soft robots has not been explored within academic research and, to the best of our knowledge, only once within another creative practice project (Budak et al, 2016).…”

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The Sounds of Softness. Designing Sound for Human-Soft Robot Interaction

Jørgensen

Christiansen

2021

Front. Robot. AI

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In this article, we report on research and creative practice that explores the aesthetic interplay between movement and sound for soft robotics. Our inquiry seeks to interrogate what sound designs might be aesthetically engaging and appropriate for soft robotic movement in a social human-robot interaction setting. We present the design of a soft sound-producing robot, SONŌ, made of pliable and expandable silicone and three sound designs made for this robot. The article comprises an articulation of the underlying design process and results from two empirical interaction experiments (N = 66, N = 60) conducted to evaluate the sound designs. The sound designs did not have statistically significant effects on people’s perception of the social attributes of two different soft robots. Qualitative results, however, indicate that people’s interpretations of the sound designs depend on robot type.

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“It Brings the Good Vibes”: Exploring Biomorphic Aesthetics in the Design of Soft Personal Robots

Christiansen,

Rafsanjani,

Jørgensen

2023

Int J of Soc Robotics

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The flexible bodies of soft robots provide exciting new possibilities for interaction with humans. In this paper, we propose a novel design paradigm, Soft Biomorphism, for soft robots centered on the idea of amplifying their inherent biomorphic aesthetic qualities and activating these as affordances for human interaction. Following this approach, we developed a set of biomorphic soft robotic prototypes and conducted two studies to understand the effects of biomorphic design aesthetics on people’s impressions of these prototypes. Based on qualitative data collected through five workshop sessions, the first exploratory study (n = 10) sought to investigate the envisioned uses and types of interactions that prototypes elicited within the context of personal robots. We found that various uses were considered and that most participants associated the biomorphic aesthetic design with soft robots contributing to emotional and physical well-being. Building on these results, we conducted a second study (n = 32) to investigate if soft robots with enhanced biomorphic qualities are perceived as more appealing and appropriate for physical human–robot interaction aimed at supporting well-being. We did not find any statistically significant preference for biomorphic soft robots. However, we found statistically significant differences in appeal ratings post-interaction for some prototypes, suggesting that physical interaction with soft robots can impact the perceived appeal. Based on our findings, we highlight key issues to bear in mind when considering biomorphic aesthetics in soft personal robot designs and provide tentative design recommendations to combine biomorphic and geometric elements and align visual appearance, tactility, and movement in future robot designs.

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The Breathing Wall (BRALL)—Triggering Life (in)animate Surfaces

Cited by 4 publications

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Autobiographical Design for Emotional Durability through Digital Transformable Fashion and Textiles

Autobiographical Design for Emotional Durability through Digital Transformable Fashion and Textiles

The Sounds of Softness. Designing Sound for Human-Soft Robot Interaction

“It Brings the Good Vibes”: Exploring Biomorphic Aesthetics in the Design of Soft Personal Robots

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