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Liang He - Beyond Shape: Fabricating Kinetic Objects with 3D Printable Spring-Based Mechanisms for Interactivity
Host
Arvind Satyanarayan
CSAIL MIT
Abstract:
3D printing technology has long been touted as a technique to revolutionize manufacturing, transform rapid prototyping, and enable personalized fabrication. In the past few decades, 3D printers have evolved to create multi-material, multi-color, multi-scale objects and, more recently, convert static 3D models into non-static objects. My research aims to increase the expressivity of consumer-grade 3D printing beyond fixed and rigid shapes for interaction and computing. In this talk, I will talk about my Ph.D. research in the past few years on kinetic fab I/O using spring-based mechanisms. In these projects, I explored parametric design techniques and developed interactive, computational systems to lower barriers to design and control desired I/O behaviors for 3D printing in many application domains, such as physical computing, prototyping, accessibility, and education.
Bio:
Liang He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Graphics Technology, Polytechnic Institute at Purdue University. His research in human-computer interaction (HCI) focuses on designing and developing novel interactive techniques and tools that mediate human interactions with custom physical objects, devices, and interfaces for computing. In his research, Liang draws on his cross-disciplinary background in computational design, engineering, and computer science to build large, complex systems and make technical contributions in digital fabrication, physical computing, haptic/tactile interfaces, accessibility, and ubiquitous computing.
The talk will also be streamed over Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/95391418975.
3D printing technology has long been touted as a technique to revolutionize manufacturing, transform rapid prototyping, and enable personalized fabrication. In the past few decades, 3D printers have evolved to create multi-material, multi-color, multi-scale objects and, more recently, convert static 3D models into non-static objects. My research aims to increase the expressivity of consumer-grade 3D printing beyond fixed and rigid shapes for interaction and computing. In this talk, I will talk about my Ph.D. research in the past few years on kinetic fab I/O using spring-based mechanisms. In these projects, I explored parametric design techniques and developed interactive, computational systems to lower barriers to design and control desired I/O behaviors for 3D printing in many application domains, such as physical computing, prototyping, accessibility, and education.
Bio:
Liang He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Graphics Technology, Polytechnic Institute at Purdue University. His research in human-computer interaction (HCI) focuses on designing and developing novel interactive techniques and tools that mediate human interactions with custom physical objects, devices, and interfaces for computing. In his research, Liang draws on his cross-disciplinary background in computational design, engineering, and computer science to build large, complex systems and make technical contributions in digital fabrication, physical computing, haptic/tactile interfaces, accessibility, and ubiquitous computing.
The talk will also be streamed over Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/95391418975.