Digital Tattoo: Using Programmable Ink to Create On-Body Displays

数字纹身：使用可编程墨水创建身体显示器

• 批准号: EP/X017834/1
• 负责人: Anne Roudaut
• 金额: $ 25.73万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX017834%2F1
• 关键词: Digital; Tattoo; Using; Programmable; Ink

We want to radically rethink the way we use digital ink made of programmable particles that change color to create digital tattoos. Imagine a tattoo that disappears or changes of visual on-demand, or adapt to the context you are in. Our goal is to create accessible fabrication methods to create programmable ink, produce a needle injection tool to embed programmable ink within skin, and design tools to activate the color change and explore innovative application scenarios. With such far-reaching idea, comes extensive challenges: is it viable in term of end-user's usability and safety? Is it technically feasible? What are ethical implications to open-up the usage of programmable ink? At the usability and implications level, we will engage with communities to gather applications for digital tattoos and interaction with them. We will study end-user acceptability and comfort around type of embodiment (ephemeral, removable, definitive). We will engage with maker communities (tattoo artists, DIY makers, biohackers) to explore how the democratisation of programmable ink can impact their research and study the risks and benefits to disseminate such inks. At the technical level (via hardware design, implementation, and evaluation) we will use black and white microcapsules and investigate how to inject them in silicon-based artificial skin made in our laboratory to understand the requirements for actuation; we will expand to the fabrication of bio-compatible microcapsules through testing with bio-printed in-vitro skin made in our laboratory to investigate user's safety requirement. Our project is highly speculative, but we want to stay within the remit of safe research: injecting active ink into a human participant requires a substantial body of work and medical expertise which is out of scope of this proposal. But we believe our programme will underpin the science needed to reach this stage as a future step. We will aim to use this opportunity to lay the groundwork and gather requirements for a large-scale funding opportunity.

我们想从根本上重新思考我们使用可编程颗粒制成的数字墨水创建数字纹身的方式。想象一个纹身消失了，或者改变了视觉效果，或者适应了你所处的环境。我们的目标是创建可访问的制造方法来创建可编程墨水，生产针头注射工具来将可编程墨水嵌入皮肤，并设计工具来激活颜色变化和探索创新的应用场景。这种影响深远的想法随之而来的是广泛的挑战：就最终用户的可用性和安全性而言，它是否可行？这在技术上可行吗？开放可编程墨水的使用有什么伦理影响？在可用性和含义层面，我们将与社区接触，收集数字纹身的应用程序并与他们互动。我们将研究最终用户对实施例类型(短暂、可拆卸、确定)的接受性和舒适性。我们将与制造商社区(纹身艺术家、DIY制造商、生物黑客)接触，探索可编程墨水的民主化如何影响他们的研究，并研究传播此类墨水的风险和好处。在技术层面(通过硬件设计、实现和评估)，我们将使用黑白微囊，并研究如何将它们注射到我们实验室制造的硅基人造皮肤中，以了解驱动要求；我们将通过使用我们实验室制造的生物印刷体外皮肤进行测试，扩展到生物兼容微胶囊的制造，以调查用户的安全需求。我们的项目具有很高的投机性，但我们希望保持在安全研究的范围内：将活性墨水注入人体参与者需要大量的工作和医学专业知识，这超出了本提案的范围。但我们相信，我们的计划将为达到这一阶段所需的科学基础奠定基础，作为未来的一步。我们将致力于利用这一机会为大规模融资机会奠定基础并收集需求。