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FibeRobo: Fabricating 4D Fiber Interfaces by Continuous Drawing of Temperature Tunable Liquid Crystal Elastomers

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Ozgun Kilic Afsar,

Rosalie Hsin-Ju Lin,

Akshay Kothakonda,

Zachary Gordon,

Kristen Dorsey,

Neil Gershenfeld,

Hiroshi IshiiAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '23: Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3586183.3606732

Published: 29 October 2023 Publication History

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We present FibeRobo, a thermally-actuated liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) fiber that can be embedded or structured into textiles and enable silent and responsive interactions with shape-changing, fiber-based interfaces. Three definitive properties distinguish FibeRobo from other actuating threads explored in HCI. First, they exhibit rapid thermal self-reversing actuation with large displacements (∼40%) without twisting. Second, we present a reproducible UV fiber drawing setup that produces hundreds of meters of fiber with a sub-millimeter diameter. Third, FibeRobo is fully compatible with existing textile manufacturing machinery such as weaving looms, embroidery, and industrial knitting machines. This paper contributes to developing temperature-responsive LCE fibers, a facile and scalable fabrication pipeline with optional heating element integration for digital control, mechanical characterization, and the establishment of higher hierarchical textile structures and design space. Finally, we introduce a set of demonstrations that illustrate the design space FibeRobo enables.

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FibeRobo: Fabricating 4D Fiber Interfaces by Continuous Drawing of Temperature Tunable Liquid Crystal Elastomers
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
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