Cilllia: 3D Printed Micro-Pillar Structures for Surface Texture, Actuation
and Sensing
Designing New Materials and Manufacturing Techniques
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Ou, Jifei
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Dublon, Gershon
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Cheng, Chin-Yi
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Heibeck, Felix
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Willis, Karl
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Ishii, Hiroshi
Proceedings of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems
2016-05-07
v.1
p.5753-5764
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: This work presents a method for 3D printing hair-like structures on both
flat and curved surfaces. It allows a user to design and fabricate hair
geometries that are smaller than 100 micron. We built a software platform to
let users quickly define the hair angle, thickness, density, and height. The
ability to fabricate customized hair-like structures not only expands the
library of 3D-printable shapes, but also enables us to design passive actuators
and swipe sensors. We also present several applications that show how the
3D-printed hair can be used for designing everyday interactive objects.