Electriflow

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

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. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1280–1290. (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). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. (Yokohama, Japan–May 8-13, 2021). pdf.