OmniFiber: Integrated Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Weaving Movement based Interactions into the Fabric of Everyday Life'Show others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: UIST 2021 - Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2021, p. 1010-1026Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Fiber - a primitive yet ubiquitous form of material - intertwines with our bodies and surroundings, from constructing our fibrous muscles that enable our movement, to forming fabrics that intimately interface with our skin. In soft robotics and advanced materials science research, actuated fibers are gaining interest as thin, flexible materials that can morph in response to external stimuli. In this paper, we build on fluidic artificial muscles research to develop OmniFiber - a soft, line-based material system for designing movement-based interactions. We devised actuated thin (øouter < 1.8 mm) fluidic fibers with integrated soft sensors that exhibit perceivably strong forces, up to 19 N at 0.5 MPa, and a high speed of linear actuation peaking at 150mm/s. These allow to flexibly weave them into everyday tangible interactions; including on-body haptic devices for embodied learning, synchronized tangible interfaces for remote communication, and robotic crafting for expressivity. The design of such interactive capabilities is supported by OmniFiber's design space, accessible fabrication pipeline, and a fluidic I/O control system to bring omni-functional fluidic fibers to the HCI toolbox of interactive morphing materials.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2021. p. 1010-1026
Keywords [en]
e-textiles, haptics, microfluidics, movement-based HCI, soft actuator, stretchable sensor
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-312845DOI: 10.1145/3472749.3474802Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85118203951OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-312845DiVA, id: diva2:1660514
Conference
34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2021, 10 October 2021 through 14 October 2021, Virtual, Online
Note
QC 20220524
Part of proceedings: ISBN 978-145038635-7
2022-05-242022-05-242023-01-03Bibliographically approved