Procedural metamaterials: A unified procedural graph for metamaterial design

L Makatura, B Wang, YL Chen, B Deng… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We introduce a compact, intuitive procedural graph representation for cellular
metamaterials, which are small-scale, tileable structures that can be architected to exhibit …

MetaSense: Integrating sensing capabilities into mechanical metamaterial

J Gong, O Seow, C Honnet, J Forman… - The 34th annual ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present a method to integrate sensing capabilities into 3D printable
metamaterial structures comprised of cells, which enables the creation of monolithic input …

ThermoFit: thermoforming smart orthoses via metamaterial structures for body-fitting and component-adjusting

G Wang, Y Yang, M Guo, K Zhu, Z Yan, Q Cui… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Smart orthoses hold great potential for intelligent rehabilitation monitoring and training.
However, most of these electronic assistive devices are typically too difficult for daily use and …

Conformal, Seamless, Sustainable: Multimorphic Textile-forms as a Material-Driven Design Approach for HCI

H McQuillan, E Karana - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Technology embeddedness in HCI textiles has great potential for enabling novel
interactions and enriched experiences, but unless carefully designed, could inadvertently …

Reconfigurable elastic metamaterials

WY Yang, Y Zhuang, LA Darcy, G Liu… - Proceedings of the 35th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present a novel design for materials that are reconfigurable by end-users. Conceptually,
we propose decomposing such reconfigurable materials into (1) a generic, complex material …

HingeCore: Laser-Cut Foamcore for Fast Assembly

M Abdullah, R Sommerfeld, B Sievers, L Geier… - Proceedings of the 35th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present HingeCore, a novel type of laser-cut 3D structure made from sandwich
materials, such as foamcore. The key design element behind HingeCore is what we call a …

Merci: Mixed curvature-based elements for computing equilibria of thin elastic ribbons

R Charrondière, S Neukirch… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Thin elastic ribbons represent a class of intermediary objects lying in-between thin elastic
plates and thin elastic rods. Although the two latter families of thin structures have received …

MechCircuit: Augmenting Laser-Cut Objects with Integrated Electronics, Mechanical Structures and Magnets

S Feng, C Yao, W Lin, J Yao, C Zhang, Z Jia… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Laser cutting revolutionizes the creation of personal-fabricated prototypes. These objects
can have transformable properties by adopting different materials and be interactive by …

X-Bridges: Designing Tunable Bridges to Enrich 3D Printed Objects' Deformation and Stiffness

L Sun, J Li, J Ji, D Pan, M Li, K Zhu, Y Fan… - Proceedings of the 35th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Bridges are unique structures appeared in fused deposition modeling (FDM) that make rigid
prints flexible but not fully explored. This paper presents X-Bridges, an end-to-end workflow …

Flaticulation: Laser Cutting Joints with Articulated Angles

C Fang, VH Chan, LP Cheng - Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present Flaticulation, a method to laser cut joints that clutch two cut-in-place flat boards
at designated articulated angles. We discover special T-patterns added on the shared edge …