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Understanding Fluid Fiber/理解流体纤维

Guanhong Liu*, Haiqing Xu*, Xianghua(Sharon) Ding, Mingyue Gao, Bowen Li, Fushen Ruan, and Haipeng Mi.

​Abstract

Fluid fiber, with fluid flowing in a tube, is an attractive material to flexibly and dynamically display digital information. While it has recently attracted attention from the HCI field, there is currently little knowledge about this material, limited to controlling the position of the droplets to present representational information like letters and numbers. To develop a broader and deepened understanding of this material and its potential for display design, we conducted a study based on a design workshop where art and design practitioners engaged in creation practice with a toolkit we designed and developed. The toolkit includes hardware components for controlling bubbles and droplets and a GUI design tool for arranging the fluid layout. Our research reveals the structural and expressive affordance of such a fluid fiber for displaying information, highlighting the unique value of fluidity as an intuitive form to express life, emotion, movement and changes.

Special Thanks

  • Yu Tianyu, Liu Chang Song Yue

  • Department of Art and Crafts, Tsinghua University

  • The Future Laboratory, Tsinghua University

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简介

作者:刘冠宏,徐海晴,丁向华,高明月,李博文,阮复伸,米海鹏*

流体纤维,流体在管内流动,是一种有吸引力的材料,可以灵活、动态地显示数字信息。虽然它最近引起了人机交互领域的关注,但目前对这种材料的了解还很少,仅限于控制液滴的位置来显示字母和数字等表示性信息。为了更广泛和深入地了解这种材料及其在显示设计中的潜力,我们进行了一项基于设计研讨会的研究,艺术和设计从业者利用我们设计和开发的工具包参与了创作实践。该工具包包括用于控制气泡和液滴的硬件组件和用于安排流体布局的GUI设计工具。我们的研究揭示了这种用于显示信息的流体纤维的结构和表达能力,突出了流动性作为表达生命、情感、运动和变化的一种直观形式的独特价值。

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