Electriflow

Electriflow demo book

Vegetable oil-filled thin poly sheets configured using a modified CNC machine show promise for the development of flexible pumps, valves and actuators, opening the door to new shape-changing interfaces that are low-cost, modular, soft and conformable. This is a collaboration with the Keplinger Research Group in mechanical engineering at CU Boulder.

THING Lab

Associated Researchers

Publications

Purnendu, Sasha Novack, Eric Acome, Mirela Alistar, Christoph Keplinger, Mark D. Gross, Carson Bruns, and Daniel Leithinger. 2021. “Electriflow: Augmenting Books With Tangible Animation Using Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators”. In: ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Labs (SIGGRAPH '21). (August 6, 2021)

Purnendu, Sasha M Novack, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger, Mirela Alistar, Mark D Gross, Carson Bruns, and Daniel Leithinger. 2021. "Electriflow: Soft Electrohydraulic Building Blocks for Prototyping Shape-changing Interfaces". In: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021. (June 28-July 2, 2021–Virtual Event).

Purnendu, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger, Mark D. Gross, Carson Bruns, Daniel Leithinger. 2021. "Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators for Origami Inspired Shape-Changing Interfaces". In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI '21 Extended Abstracts). (Yokohama, Japan–May 8-13, 2021).