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Dorcas Lin, Ray Pai, Sophie Paul Goals for next 3 weeks: 4/12 to 4/18 — Create design system using 3-4 folds by end of this week (current have hinge fold and hybrid hard/soft setting nailed down, figuring out curves/curls) 4/18 to 5/2 — Based on design system, create a set of utensils. Refine cuts and
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Dorcas Lin, Ray Pai, Sophie Paul 4/7 Experiment Printed Templates 4/5 Experiment 4/1 Experiment Heat as Adhesive and Form Creation Two zig-zag overlapping this created semi-flexible hinges depending on which portion set first Two strips overlapping 3. Adding pressure to touchpoints to create hybrid joint Exploring New Design Affordances As our fabrication has begun to
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Concept Statement In order to explore how to accommodate a hands-on learning style through visualization of tactile experiences, we are creating an interactive origami book with self-folding pages that portray each step of the process from the first fold to the last fold for the reader. In terms of the physical process,  the instructions would
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Introduction We are creating an interactive DIY book for teenagers and adults with self-folding/actuating origami pages that aid the reader’s process of making. Our overarching goal is to accommodate a hands-on learning style by making it easier to visualize through tactile experiences. For example, a lesson in the book could be an “introduction to circuits
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Themes: Gestural Input, interpretation, collaboration(?) In this project, I want to explore the separation of body in space and how effectively can movements (both small, detail-oriented and grandiose) be translated by a machine to create art. I plan on using a soft sensing glove and a sponge ball along with a motion-tracking camera that targets
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Overview:The project I want to work on is a mechanism that takes a user’s movement as the primary input and abstracts it into the paint on canvas based on movement speed, sharpness, and direction. The output wouldn’t be paint splatters but a predetermined visual where the “sloppiness” or “cleanliness” of the strokes and color usage
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WeatherWorlds: Body & Space at the National Children’s Museum https://www.design-io.com/projects/weatherworlds Weather Worlds is an interactive installation that allows kids to immerse and experience a dynamic environment with “superpowers”. Using their body, children can conjure a storm, release a twisting tornado, or rain down bolts of lightning from their fingertips. The connection of visuals on the
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Iridescence is a 3D printed collar that responds to the movement and emotions of those around the wearer. The project was commissioned by the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago for the exhibit “Wired to Wear.” It explores how our clothing become a nonverbal form of communication through changes in texture and color.

Paper: Augmenting Soft Robotics with Sound Bering Christiansen, Mads & Jørgensen, Jonas. (2020). Augmenting Soft Robotics with Sound. 133-135. 10.1145/3371382.3378328. — The following form is a synthesis of typical review forms, although strongly influenced by the HRI process. Do you have any conflict of interest in reviewing this paper? A “conflict of interest” is defined
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I started with a previous paper from the course resources about Puffy the social robot that helps kids with NDD.1 It’s still new so I went to the references and found a paper about huggable robots in multi-modal spaces.2 I was curious about why robots help at all and then found a paper in the
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