Hydrogel-based DIY Underwater Morphing Artifacts: A morphing and fabrication technique to democratize the creation of controllable morphing 3D underwater structures with low-cost, easily available hydrogel beads adhered to a substrate.
Hydrogel-based DIY Underwater Morphing Artifacts: A morphing and fabrication technique to democratize the creation of controllable morphing 3D underwater structures with low-cost, easily available hydrogel beads adhered to a substrate.
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10.1145/3461778.3462136
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2021-06
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Harshika Jain;Kexin Lu;Lining Yao
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作者：
Harshika Jain;Kexin Lu;Lining Yao
水凝胶是一种多功能变形材料，最近被用于创建形状改变的界面。然而，大多数改变形状的界面需要先进的材料合成，专门的实验室设置来制造，并且需要技术知识来模拟它们的变形行为。为了复制这样的结构，这些因素成为制作者的障碍。因此，为了使基于水凝胶的变形人工制品的创造民主化，并扩展其在HCI中的设计空间，我们提出了一种水触发变形机制，该机制利用附着在薄基板上的相邻水凝胶珠之间的距离来控制它们的弯曲角度。本文介绍了弯曲角量化实验的创建模拟器，开发计算工具的过程及其用户友好的工作流程，并演示了用该工具构建的kirigami和基于分支的工件。使用我们的方法，任何人都可以轻松地设计和制造自定义变形结构。
Hydrogels are versatile morphing materials that have recently been adopted for creating shape-changing interfaces. However, most shape-changing interfaces require advanced material synthesis, specialized lab settings for fabrication, and technical knowledge is needed to simulate their morphing behavior. To replicate such structures, these factors become a barrier for makers. Therefore, to democratize the creation of hydrogel-based morphing artifacts and to extend their design space in HCI, we propose a water-triggered morphing mechanism that utilizes the distance between adjacent hydrogel beads adhered on a thin substrate to control their bending angle. This paper describes the bending angle quantification experiments for creating a simulator, the process of developing a computational tool along with its user-friendly workflow and demonstrates kirigami and branch-based artifacts built with the tool. Using our method, anyone can easily design and fabricate custom morphing structures.