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DisplayFab: The State of the Art and a Roadmap in the Personal Fabrication of Free-Form Displays Using Active Materials and Additive Manufacturing.

2024. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Ollie Hanton, Mike Fraser & Anne Roudaut.

Over recent years, there has been significant research within HCI towards free-form physical interactive devices. However, such devices are not straightforward to design, produce and deploy on demand. Traditional development revolves around iterative prototyping through component-based assembly, limiting device structure and implementation. Material-centric personal display fabrication (DisplayFab) opens the possibility of decentralised, configurable production by low-skill makers. Currently, DisplayFab is severely limited by its embryonic stage of development, the complexity of involved processes and materials, and the challenges around designing interactive structures. We present a development framework to provide a path for future research. DisplayFab has been developed by identifying 4 key breakpoints in the existing “Personal Fabrication” framework: Material and Deposition, Conception and Software, Feedback and Interactivity and Responsible Innovation. We use these breakpoints to form a targeted literature review of relevant work. Doing this we identify 30 challenges that act as roadmap for future research in DisplayFab.

Full paper

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642708

Citation

Hanton, O., Fraser, M., & Roudaut, A. (2024). Displayfab: the state of the art and a roadmap in the personal fabrication of free-form displays using active materials and additive manufacturing. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–24).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{hanton2024displayfab, title={DisplayFab: The State of the Art and a Roadmap in the Personal Fabrication of Free-Form Displays Using Active Materials and Additive Manufacturing.}, author={Hanton, Ollie and Fraser, Mike and Roudaut, Anne}, booktitle={Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}, pages={1--24}, year={2024} }