Therms-Up!: DIY Inflatables and Interactive Materials by Upcycling Wasted Thermoplastic Bags

Choi, Kyung Yun; Ishii, Hiroshi

doi:10.1145/3430524.3442457

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“…Choi and Ishii presented Therms-Up! as a way of creating inflatables from plastic bags on commodity 3D-printing hardware [19], which is an upcycling process. ReFabricator by Yamada et al is a tool with integrates arbitrary objects in a digital fabrication process, instead of relying on a 3D-printer for the entire artifact [92].…”

Section: 41mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ephemeral Fabrication: Exploring a Ubiquitous Fabrication Scenario of Low-Effort, In-Situ Creation of Short-Lived Physical Artifacts

Stemasov

Botner

Rukzio

et al. 2022

Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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Personal fabrication empowers users to create objects increasingly easier and faster. This continuous decrease in effort evokes a speculative scenario of Ephemeral Fabrication (EF), enabled and amplified by emerging paradigms of mobile, wearable, or even bodyintegrated fabrication. EF yields fast, temporary, in-situ solutions for everyday problems (e.g., creating a protective skin, affixing a phone). Users solely create those, since the required effort is negligible. We present and critically reflect on the EF scenario, by exploring current trends in research and building a body-worn fabrication device. EF is a plausible extrapolation of current developments, entailing both positive (e.g., accessibility) and negative implications (e.g., unsustainability). Using speculative design methodology to question the trajectory of personal fabrication, we argue that to avert the aftermath of such futures, topics like sustainability can not remain an afterthought, but rather be situated in interactions themselves: through embedded constraints, conscious material choice, and constructive embedding of ephemerality. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI).

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Section: 41mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ephemeral Fabrication: Exploring a Ubiquitous Fabrication Scenario of Low-Effort, In-Situ Creation of Short-Lived Physical Artifacts

Stemasov

Botner

Rukzio

et al. 2022

Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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“…Inspired by the thermal sealing methods introduced in aeroMorph (Ou et al, 2016) and Therms-Up (Choi & Ishii, 2021), this paper designs an adjustablepressured heating head based on a three-axis CNC, as shown in Figure 9. It consists of two parts, including a heating head used to heat-seal the thermoplastic films and a pressure-adjustable bearing to adjust the pressure of the heating head in contact with the material and to compensate for…”

Section: Manufacturing Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, these manufacturing processes rely mostly on complicated manual operations to assemble parts. Today's thermoplastic films can be easily and accurately sealed in a designed path using a CNC with a heating head (Ou et al, 2016) or an unmodified 3D printer (Choi & Ishii, 2021). The sealing paths on the films can be designed as particular patterns leading to inflated objects of expected forms, which may have capabilities of dynamic movements, after inflation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic Inflatable Structures and Digital Fabrication Process

Lin¹,

Hsu²

2022

Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eC

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Inflatable structures made of flat film materials have an advantage of low cost, lightweight and rapid deployment, but the variation of their forms is relatively limited, and it is a challenge to produce pneumatic deformations. This paper proposes a designing and manufacturing process of inflatable structures which are made of flat film materials and are able to perform dynamic movements. The process includes steps in which a target 3D surface is produced through programmed 2D paths heat-sealed on flat films of different thickness, leading to a structure composed of air chambers. A parametric modelling procedure and associated principles are developed for the relationship between the forms of a flat-film-based inflatable structure and the heat sealing patterns on the film. A system of double-layer air chambers was designed to control the direction of bending movements. In addition, the form variation of a designed inflatable structure can be achieved by a parametric design process described in this paper.

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“…Given the great potential of tangible interfaces and embedding multisensory interactions in everyday things, the absence of such interventions in the context of a global crisis is a major current gap and a missed opportunity. Limited research during the lockdown restrictions (and largely because of the restrictions) looked at supporting people working from home [52], studying at home [1], prototyping tangible interfaces at home [7], or connecting with distant loved ones [20,57], but all using screen-based technology. 'Making' during the pandemic focused on the design and rapid fabrication of face-masks [5,15].…”

Section: Social Isolationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A few publications during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 unwrapped some DIY methods and low-cost accessible materials for prototyping [7,25,38] but relied solely on the autoethnography of the lead author carrying out most of the design process. Limited work developed new methods for DIY physical prototyping to empower novice users in the HCI community interested in DIY making to build affordable and easily deployable circuits, whether using e-textiles to build their own circuits in the future [21,27] or microcontrollers for their research [53].…”

Section: Maker-culture During Covidmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVIDware: Designing Interactive Everyday Things as Tangible Homeware for Social Isolation

Nousir¹,

Chen²,

Liu³

et al. 2022

IxD&A

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This paper describes our collaborative journey of creating everyday interactive artefacts to help us think, reflect, and live through self-isolation. Through a co-design approach, we designed interactive homeware objects (that we collectively refer to as ‘COVIDware’) to address the challenges of isolation during the pandemic. Five artefacts were developed by self-isolated designers as interactive art installations. We discuss how each creator reflected on her design concept, process, and encounter through concepts of critical making, speculation, and engagement via in-the-isolated-wild deployments. By empowering early researchers/enthusiasts to design ‘with’ smart-materials, and off-the-shelf items, we reflect on how these homey interfaces can enhance people’s wellbeing beyond screen-based interactions. Despite not collaborating in the making process, our findings from the designer’s making process show how all the designed artefacts shared attributes of biophilic design, imperfection, and unconventional interactions with the overarching goal of promoting wellbeing, and meaningful connection with nature, self, and others.

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Therms-Up!: DIY Inflatables and Interactive Materials by Upcycling Wasted Thermoplastic Bags

Cited by 27 publications

References 15 publications

Ephemeral Fabrication: Exploring a Ubiquitous Fabrication Scenario of Low-Effort, In-Situ Creation of Short-Lived Physical Artifacts

Ephemeral Fabrication: Exploring a Ubiquitous Fabrication Scenario of Low-Effort, In-Situ Creation of Short-Lived Physical Artifacts

Dynamic Inflatable Structures and Digital Fabrication Process

COVIDware: Designing Interactive Everyday Things as Tangible Homeware for Social Isolation

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