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THE SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Under the provisions of the regulations for the degree
MASTER OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
on Tuesday, April 12, 2022
7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Via https://gatech.zoom.us/j/91879899785?pwd=OVR4OFNFMUxRUTRtMW85TUtpcWZMQT09
Meeting ID: 918 7989 9785
Passcode: 847234
will be held the
THESIS DEFENSE
for
Akash Talyan
Functional Materials: Investigating ways to make rigid prototyping materials flexible and sensible leveraging with computing technologies
Advisor:
Dr. Hyun Joo, Assistant Professor, Schools of Industrial Design and Interactive Computing
Committee:
Dr. Wei Wang, Adjunct Professor, School of Industrial Design, Georgia Tech & Professor, School of Design, Hunan University, China
Dr. Clement Zheng, Assistant Professor, School of Industrial Design, National University of Singapore
Faculty and students are invited to attend this presentation.
Abstract:
This thesis presents a fabrication tool-kit developed through a material-driven inquiry to make the rigid prototyping material flexible and augment their sensing capability by combining them with the conductive substrate material. In this study, we present how different Kirigami (a Japanese term to describe cutting, folding and bending flat sheets of paper into three-dimensional forms) patterns when applied to rigid prototyping materials like chipboard, wood and acrylic can create flexible free form surfaces. Additionally, it shows how adding the conductive substrate like carbon and nickel can add sensing behavior providing affordances for various tangible interactions.
In this thesis, we discuss different design parameters that can be taken into consideration while using the proposed tools and techniques. Various emerging creative possibilities were explored using the tools and techniques with a group of experienced designers through a co-design workshop. From our user study, we discovered that the tool-kit supports implementing electronics at the craft level seamlessly, and this empowers designers in exploring tangible interaction design.
