CAREER: On-Skin Interface Prototyping Toolkits: Democratizing Next Generation Wearable Computing

职业：皮肤界面原型工具包：下一代可穿戴计算的大众化

• 批准号: 2047249
• 负责人: Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao
• 金额: $ 49.98万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2047249&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Skin; Interface; Prototyping; Toolkits

This project will investigate on-skin interfaces, an emerging, next generation form of wearable computing. On-skin interfaces come in forms such as smart tattoos and bandages. They expand the sensing capabilities of current mobile and wearable devices by facilitating direct access to signals that represent people’s physiology. This technology holds promise for realizing the vision of an "invisible computer" for pervasive healthcare, elderly assisted living, the future of work, and national defense. While prior on-skin interfaces have suggested benefits to society, the difficulty of prototyping on-skin interfaces is limiting progress in this nascent, yet potentially transformative field. The project will advance the prototyping, design, and use of on-skin interfaces through the development of toolkits that combine traditional crafting methods and unorthodox materials, with digital fabrication techniques and electronics. It will incorporate diverse perspectives, outside of laboratory settings, for the design of social interactions, form factors, and applications. It will bring scientists, engineers, and artists together to invent the future of human experiences of on-skin technologies. The investigation will introduce young girls and rural area youth to interdisciplinary STEM learning through on-skin interface workshops using the developed toolkits. Novel collaborative programs with craftspeople and artists, and teaching innovation at the graduate and undergraduate level will contribute to educating new STEM workers, who combine on-body design with emerging miniaturized technology. This project will hybridize digital and physical realms, connect cultural and technological materials, and blend craft, computing, and electronics. It will investigate innovative wearable computing through these research aims: (1) construction toolkits that enable populations previously without access to electronics development to prototype on-skin interface applications; (2) novel fabrication processes that blend readily accessible textile and paper materials with emerging slim electronics for rapid prototyping of on-skin interfaces; and (3) novel programs for transdisciplinary collaboration between STEM researchers and craftspeople. The research aims will be evaluated through (1) wearability and durability studies of the developed tools; and (2) workshop studies that provide novel assessments of how diverse populations build on-skin interfaces, including how they approach the process, the type of applications they want to build, how they envision the technologies integrated in everyday life, and the STEM-related skills they develop through the making process.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个项目将研究皮肤上的接口，一个新兴的，下一代形式的可穿戴计算。皮肤上的界面以智能纹身和绷带等形式出现。它们通过促进直接访问代表人们生理的信号来扩展当前移动的和可穿戴设备的传感能力。这项技术有望实现“隐形计算机”的愿景，用于普及医疗保健，老年人辅助生活，未来的工作和国防。 虽然先前的皮肤上接口已经表明对社会有益，但皮肤上接口原型化的困难限制了这个新生但潜在变革领域的进展。该项目将通过开发将联合收割机传统工艺方法和非正统材料与数字制造技术和电子技术相结合的工具包，推进原型设计、设计和皮肤界面的使用。它将结合不同的观点，实验室设置之外，为社会互动，形状因素和应用程序的设计。它将把科学家、工程师和艺术家聚集在一起，共同创造人类皮肤技术体验的未来。该调查将通过使用开发的工具包的皮肤界面研讨会向年轻女孩和农村地区青年介绍跨学科STEM学习。与工匠和艺术家的新颖合作项目，以及研究生和本科生层面的教学创新，将有助于教育新的STEM工作者，他们将联合收割机的车身设计与新兴的小型化技术相结合。该项目将混合数字和物理领域，连接文化和技术材料，并融合工艺，计算和电子。它将通过以下研究目标来研究创新的可穿戴计算：（1）使以前无法获得电子开发的人群能够原型化皮肤界面应用的构建工具包;（2）将易于获得的纺织品和纸张材料与新兴的超薄电子产品混合的新型制造工艺，用于快速原型化皮肤界面;以及（3）STEM研究人员和手工艺者之间跨学科合作的新计划。研究目标将通过（1）开发工具的耐磨性和耐久性研究进行评估;以及（2）研讨会研究，提供关于不同人群如何构建皮肤界面的新评估，包括他们如何处理该过程，他们想要构建的应用程序类型，他们如何设想将技术集成到日常生活中，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

SkinKit: Construction Kit for On-Skin Interface Prototyping

SkinKit：用于皮肤界面原型设计的构建套件

• DOI: 10.1145/3494989
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
• 作者: Ku, Pin-Sung;Molla, Md. Tahmidul;Huang, Kunpeng;Kattappurath, Priya;Ranjan, Krithik;Kao, Hsin-Liu Cindy
• 通讯作者: Kao, Hsin-Liu Cindy

KnitSkin: Machine-Knitted Scaled Skin for Locomotion

• DOI: 10.1145/3491102.3502142
• 发表时间: 2022-04
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• 作者: Jin Hee Kim;Shreyas Patil;Sarina Matson;Melissa Conroy;H. Kao

DynamicSkin: Bio-inspired Scaled Sleeve for Body Temperature Regulation and Dynamic Self-Expression

DynamicSkin：仿生鳞片套，用于体温调节和动态自我表达

• DOI: 10.1145/3519391.3524173
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Augmented Humans 2022
• 作者: Zhu, Yuanhao;Lee, Annice;Hu, Ziyue;Kao, Hsin-Liu
• 通讯作者: Kao, Hsin-Liu

WovenProbe: Probing Possibilities for Weaving Fully-Integrated On-Skin Systems Deployable in the Field

WovenProbe：探索编织可在现场部署的完全集成的皮肤系统的可能性

• DOI: 10.1145/3461778.3462105
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021
• 作者: Huang, Kunpeng;Sun, Ruojia;Zhang, Ximeng;Islam Molla, Md. Tahmidul;Dunne, Margaret;Guimbretiere, Francois;Kao, Cindy Hsin-Liu
• 通讯作者: Kao, Cindy Hsin-Liu

KnitDermis: Fabricating Tactile On-Body Interfaces Through Machine Knitting

• DOI: 10.1145/3461778.3462007
• 发表时间: 2021-06
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
• 作者: Jin Hee Kim;Kunpeng Huang;Simone White;Melissa Conroy;H. Kao