milliMorph - Fluid-Driven Thin Film Shape-Change Materials for Interaction Design

This paper presents a design space, a fabrication system and applications of creating fluidic chambers and channels at millimeter scale for tangible actuated interfaces. The ability to design and fabricate millifluidic chambers allows one to create high frequency actuation, sequentially control of flows and high resolution design on thin film materials. We propose a four dimensional design space of creating those fluidic chambers, a novel heat sealing system that enables easy and precise millifluidics fabrication, and application demonstrations of the fabricated materials for haptics, ambient devices and robotics. As shape-change materials are increasingly integrated in interaction design, milliMorph enriches library of the fluid-driven shape-change mateirals, and demonstrates new design opportunities that is unique at millimeter scale for product and interaction design.