Kurzkommentar |
in cooperation with Okinlab For 3rd year B.Sc. Students and for M.Sc. Students Instructors: Dr. Jürgen Steimle, Daniel Gröger, Martin Weigel (Embodied Interaction Group, MPI/MMCI) Website: https://embodied.mpi-inf.mpg.de/teaching/interactive-digital-fabrication/
Description: A revolution is in the making. New digital fabrication tools enable laypeople to produce physical objects quickly and in high quality. A variety of widely accessible fabrication tools, such as 3D printers and laser cutters can physically realize a digital design. This enables people to realize highly personalized objects, replacement parts, clothing, accessories, and furniture. In addition to passive shapes, recent advances in digital fabrication now even allow for printing of functioning electronic devices.
This "digitization" of production makes personalized production widely accessible: instead of requiring expert skills in a specific physical domain, people can now fabricate their own objects largely by interacting with standard software. This puts Human-Computer Interaction into the center of fabrication, as the software user interface defines what people can fabricate and how quickly and easily they can do so.
The goal of this seminar is to familiarize the participants with digital fabrication, its tools and techniques, and the novel opportunities it opens up. The seminar will consist of a productive mixture of introductory lectures, reading assignments, and a practical group project. It will cover fundamentals, the latest advances in digital fabrication, and provide a hands-on experience with digital fabrication tools in a variety of application domains.
The seminar will be organized in cooperation with Okinlab. Okinlab is a local award-winning start-up that leverages digital fabrication for creating personalized furniture (https://form.bar/).
The class will cover the following topics:
• Overview of digital fabrication • FabLabs and the maker movement • Tools and approaches for interactive digital modeling • Physical fabrication tools: additive vs. subtractive processes, 3D printing, laser cutting • Digital fabrication of electronic devices: printing customized flexible sensors, displays and actuators • Latest advances in research on digital fabrication • Applications of digital fabrication: personalized objects, personalized furniture, wearable computing, interactive objects
Dates: -- Prior registration is mandatory, see below. -- Introductory session on Wednesday, 21.10.15 at 14:00 in Bld. E1.7, room 0.08. Weekly sessions during the semester (class period) on Wednesdays from 14:00 - 15:30 in Bld. E1.7, room 0.08.
Requirements: • Interest in building, making, crafting • Interest in interactive devices • Solid programming skills • Previous classes on Human-Computer Interaction are a plus, but not required
Literature: • Gershenfeld, N.: Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication, Basic Books, Inc., 2007 • Steimle, J.: Printed Electronics for Human-computer Interaction, interactions, ACM, 2015, 22, 72-75 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2754304 • Mueller, S.; Im, S.; Gurevich, S.; Teibrich, A.; Pfisterer, L.; Guimbretière, F. & Baudisch, P. WirePrint: 3D Printed Previews for Fast Prototyping. Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM, 2014, 273-280 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2642918.2647359 • Laput, G.; Brockmeyer, E.; Hudson, S. E. & Harrison, C.: Acoustruments: Passive, Acoustically-Driven, Interactive Controls for Handheld Devices. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, 2015, 2161-2170 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2702123.2702414 • Saul, G.; Lau, M.; Mitani, J. & Igarashi, T.: SketchChair: An All-in-one Chair Design System for End Users. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, ACM, 2011, 73-80 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1935701.1935717
Language: English
Maximum number of participants: 15
Registration: Please find more information on the seminar and on how to apply here: https://embodied.mpi-inf.mpg.de/teaching/interactive-digital-fabrication/
Contact: embodied-teaching@mpi-inf.mpg.de |