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Introduction
I’m an Assistant Professor at TU/e Material Aesthetics Lab, Industrial Design. My research examines how the material-turn in HCI allows dynamic materials to express temporal (change-in-time) behaviours, notably in molecular-driven actuators, through theoretical concepts such as “temporal form” and “tension-and-release”, which are typically found in time-based contexts (film, music, dance, games, and storytelling).
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September 2018 - September 2020
Education
October 2013 - June 2017
Royal College of Art
Field of study
- Interactive Textiles/Soft Robotics
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Publications (15)
Soft robotic actuators can create new uses and expressions for tangible and embodied interaction. Hydrogels, popular in soft robotics for their reversible shape-changing properties, often require technical expertise and specialized laboratories for fabrication, limiting rapid iteration. Additionally, aesthetic and form-giving qualities important to...
The current ecological crisis highlights a need for an alternative design approach to counteract the mainstream human-centered design methodologies. This pictorial aims to bridge this gap by introducing a novel design approach, Life Centered Design, and its design process. The findings from a biodesign project on bioluminescent microalgae are prese...
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are promising shape-changing actuators for soft robotics in human–computer interaction (HCI). Current LCE manufacturing processes, such as fiber-drawing, extrusion, and 3D printing, face limitations on form-giving and accessibility. We introduce a novel rapid-prototyping approach for thermo-responsive LCE fiber actu...
The physical world (our bodies and materiality) enables increasingly complex interactions between humans and systems. While the material-turn in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) allows dynamic materials to exhibit temporal (change-in-time) behaviours, current
research concentrates on the expressive properties of the artefact and overlooks the nuanc...
This work aims to provide early-stage insights into an electro-thermally actuated liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) fiber for novel shape-changing behaviors that are both programmable and reversible. We build a control system and experimentally investigate the electro-thermal characteristics and actuation, identifying four categories of fiber behavior...
Interactive textiles embed sensing and actuating capabilities in their fibers and structure. Adoption of interactive textiles is complex requiring a combination of competences or collaboration between interaction designers, textile designers and textile engineers. These disciplines are typically organized in separate and unconnected departments, us...
A new form of inorganic printed electronics has been developed that allows for high speed production of solid-state lighting on flexible substrates. Light emitting diodes (LED) become more efficient as their size is decreased. However, the difficulties in making the electrical connection to micro LEDs has previously prevented these benefits being e...
This paper will consider a future of wearable fluidic materials through a frame of embodied making and imagination. It will be presented through the design, construction, and reflection of a design case study: ‘Wearable Rhythms.’ This exploration is undertaken by drawing upon the rhythm of natural, elemental materials such as water and air. The aim...
This paper will investigate how the distinct role of the textile designer can enrich the design process in HCI. It will advocate embodiment as a design methodology by focusing on a subjective, visceral engagement with material and physical computing using tacit textiles expertise. This theoretical premise is explored drawing on the fields of soft r...
Chromatophores are the colour changing organelles in the skins of animals including fish and cephalopods. The ability
of cephalopods in particular to rapidly change their colouration in response to environmental changes, for example to
camouflage against a new background, and in social situations, for example to attract a mate or repel a rival, is...
