Design and Simulation Tool for Sequentially and Conditionally Programmable Waxpaper Morphing Interfaces

Emily Guan, Di Wu, Qiuyu Lu, Lining Yao. ACM CHI EA 2024 PDF | DOI

This project demonstrates a design tool that aids the design and simulation of waxpaper actuators. The waxpaper actuator is a sequentially-controllable, moisture-triggered, rapidly-fabricated, and low-cost shape-changing interface. We introduce a design tool that integrates the characteristic data of the waxpaper actuator to aid users in the customization of swift personal actuators. It uses gray levels to control the wax interface’s deformations, bending degrees and response times. Users can design their own actuators or import samples we provide, customize variables to best fit their needs, and create simulations to preview the performance. This gives higher precision to the effectiveness of the waxpaper actuator before it is fabricated. This makes the technique more accurate and accessible to future HCI projects.

(Related Paper) Waxpaper Actuator: Sequentially and Conditionally Programmable Wax Paper for Morphing Interfaces

Di Wu, Emily Guan, Yunjia Zhang, Hsuanju Lai, Qiuyu Lu, Lining Yao. ACM CHI 2024 PDF | DOI