TY - GEN
T1 - Demonstrating HydroMod
T2 - 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2022
AU - Morita, Takafumi
AU - Kuwajima, Yu
AU - Minaminosono, Ayato
AU - Maeda, Shingo
AU - Kakehi, Yasuaki
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP21H04 882, Japan.
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PY - 2022/4/27
Y1 - 2022/4/27
N2 - In recent years, actuators that handle fluids such as gases and liquids have been attracting attention for their applications in soft robots and shape-changing interfaces. In the field of HCI, there have been various inflatable prototyping tools that utilize air control, however, very few tools for liquid control have been developed. In this study, we propose HydroMod, novel constructive modules that can easily generate liquid flow and programmatically control liquid flow, with the aim of lowering the barrier to entry for prototyping with liquids. HydroMod consists of palm-sized small modules, which can generate liquid flow with the electrohydrodynamics (EHD) phenomenon by simply connecting the modules. Moreover, users can control the flow path by simply recombining the modules. In this paper, we demonstrate three applications that can be easily prototyped with liquids by recombining HydroMod. These applications showcase the characteristics of using liquids: weight manipulation, color expression, and heating/cooling control.
AB - In recent years, actuators that handle fluids such as gases and liquids have been attracting attention for their applications in soft robots and shape-changing interfaces. In the field of HCI, there have been various inflatable prototyping tools that utilize air control, however, very few tools for liquid control have been developed. In this study, we propose HydroMod, novel constructive modules that can easily generate liquid flow and programmatically control liquid flow, with the aim of lowering the barrier to entry for prototyping with liquids. HydroMod consists of palm-sized small modules, which can generate liquid flow with the electrohydrodynamics (EHD) phenomenon by simply connecting the modules. Moreover, users can control the flow path by simply recombining the modules. In this paper, we demonstrate three applications that can be easily prototyped with liquids by recombining HydroMod. These applications showcase the characteristics of using liquids: weight manipulation, color expression, and heating/cooling control.
KW - Electrohydrodynamics
KW - Fluid Interface
KW - Programmable Materials
KW - Prototyping
KW - Toolkit
KW - Wearables
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U2 - 10.1145/3491101.3519893
DO - 10.1145/3491101.3519893
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85129721190
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2022 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 30 April 2022 through 5 May 2022
ER -