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DropPop: Designing Drop-to-Deploy Mechanisms with Bistable Scissors Structures

Deployable structures often rely on complex deployment mechanisms such as external pneumatic pumps, electric motors, or manual assembly. These conventional methods, which are intended for applications in shape morphing architectures, robotics, and product design, can be bulky and unwieldy for everyday interaction and…

UIST '25Vibrotactile Feedback & Skin Stimulation +1

EI-Lite: Electrical Impedance Sensing for Micro-gesture Recognition and Pinch Force Estimation

Micro-gesture recognition and fine-grain pinch press enables intuitive and discreet control of devices, offering significant potential for enhancing human-computer interaction (HCI). In this paper, we present EI-Lite, a lightweight wrist-worn electrical impedance sensing device for micro-gesture recognition and contin…

DIS '25Technology Ethics & Critical HCI +1

Anti-Heroes: A Role-Based Method to Encourage Ethical Deliberation

HCI and design researchers have designed, adopted, and customized a range of ethics-focused methods to inscribe values and support ethical decision-making in a design process. In this paper, we add to this body of resources, constructing a method that surfaces the designer's intentions in an action-focused way, encour…

CHI '25Honorable MentionShape-Changing Interfaces & Soft Robotic Materials +1

Xstrings: 3D Printing Cable-Driven Mechanism for Actuation, Deformation, and Manipulation

In this paper, we present Xstrings, a method for designing and fabricating 3D printed objects with integrated cable-driven mechanisms that can be printed in one go without the need for manual assembly. Xstrings supports four types of cable-driven interactions—bend, coil, screw and compress—which are activated by apply…

CHI '24Shape-Changing Interfaces & Soft Robotic Materials

Waxpaper Actuator: Sequentially and Conditionally Programmable Wax Paper for Morphing Interfaces

We print wax on the paper and turn the composite into a sequentially-controllable, moisture-triggered, rapidly-fabricated, and low-cost shape-changing interface. This technique relies on a sequential control method that harnesses two critical variables: gray levels and water amount. By integrating these variables with…

CHI '24Technology Ethics & Critical HCI +2

Building an Ethics-Focused Action Plan: Roles, Process Moves, and Trajectories

Design and technology practitioners are increasingly aware of the ethical impact of their work practices, desiring tools to support their ethical awareness across a range of contexts. In this paper, we report on findings from a series of six co-creation workshops with 26 technology and design practitioners that suppor…

MOBILEHCI '23Head-Up Display (HUD) & Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) +1

DrivingVibe: Enhancing VR Driving Experience using Inertia-based Vibrotactile Feedback around the Head

We present DrivingVibe, which explores vibrotactile feedback designs around the head to enhance VR driving motion experiences. We propose two approaches that use a 360-degree vibrotactile headband: 1) mirroring and 2) 3D inertia-based.The mirroring approach extends the vibrotactile patterns of handheld controllers to…

DIS '20Design Fiction +2

The Inclusion Zone: Grounded Speculations in Chernobyl

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 inspired this pictorial, which weaves together a number of technologies to tell a story about life in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in the aftermath of the nuclear meltdown. The artifacts included here run the gamut from functional to speculative and focus on how humans, plants, a…

CHI '18Programming Education & Computational Thinking +1

Developing a Community of Practice to Support Global HCI Education

ACM SIGCHI has been supporting research in HCI education for many years, most actively from 2011-2014. At CHI2014, a workshop on developing a new HCI living curriculum was held, building on three years of research and collaboration. We believe the time is right to develop and implement the suggested HCI living curricu…

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Haptic, Force & Physical Feedback

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