OptiStructures: Fabrication of Room-Scale Interactive Structures with Embedded Fiber Bragg Grating Optical Sensors and Displays

Saiganesh Swaminathan,Jonathon Fagert, Michael Rivera, Andrew Cao, Gierad Laput, Haeyoung Noh, and Scott E. Hudson.

 

Input, Output and Construction Methods for Custom Fabrication of Room-Scale Deployable Pneumatic Structures

Saiganesh Swaminathan, Michael L. Rivera, Runchang Kang, Zheng Luo, Kadri B. Ozutemiz, and Scott E. Hudson.

 

FiberPrint: 3D Printing Mechanically Strong, Lightweight Carbon-Fiber Composite Devices with Embedded Electronic Function

Saiganesh Swaminathan, Kadri Bugra Ozutemiz, Carmel Majidi, and Scott Hudson

 

In this paper, we introduce a set of techniques we call FiberWire, which leverages a novel capability to 3D print mechanically strong and light weight carbon fiber composite objects with embedded circuitry and sensing function. We show a range of examples like a bicycle handle bar with interactive controls, a swing and impact sensing golf club and an interactive game controller. Please read paper for more details.

Learn2Earn: Using Mobile Airtime Incentives to Bolster Public Awareness Campaigns

Saiganesh Swaminathan, Indrani Medhi Thies, Devansh Mehta, Edward Cutrell, Amit Sharma and Bill Thies

 

WearMail: On-the-Go Access to Information in Your Email with a Privacy-Preserving Human Computation Workflow

Saiganesh Swaminathan, Raymond Fok, Fanglin Chen, Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang, Irene Lin, Rohan Jadvani, Walter S. Lasecki, Jeffrey P. Bigham

 

Email is more than just a communication medium. Email serves as an external memory for people—it contains our reservation numbers, meeting details, phone numbers, and more. Often, people need access to this information while on the go, which is cumbersome from mobile devices with limited I/O bandwidth. In this paper, we introduce WearMail, a conversational interface to retrieve specific information in email. WearMail is mostly automated but is made robust to information extraction tasks via a novel privacy-preserving human computation workflow. [more coming soon]

 

Linespace: a sensemaking platform for blind

Saiganesh Swaminathan, Thijs Roumen, Robert Kovacs, David Stangl, Stefanie Mueller and Patrick Baudisch

 

For visually impaired users, making sense of spatial information is difficult as they have to scan and memorize contents before being able to analyze it. Even worse, any update to the displayed contents invalidates their spatial memory, which can force them to manually rescan the entire display. Making display contents persist, we argue, is thus the highest priority in designing a sensemaking system for the visually impaired. We present a tactile display system based on a 3D printer that is designed with this goal in mind. [more coming soon]

 

TurkBench: Rendering the Market for Turkers

Benjamin V. Hanrahan, Jutta K. Willamowski,Saiganesh Swaminathan, and David B. Martin

 

Crowdworkers face a numerous challenges in turking in online labor markerts. We built a tool TurkBench that provides workers with a personalized market visualization and session management to help them navigate the market efficiently.[more coming soon]

 

Supporting The Design and Fabrication of Physical Visualizations

Saiganesh Swaminathan, Conglei Shi, Yvonne Jansen, Pierre Dragicevic, Lora Oehlberg, Jean-Daniel Fekete.

 

An increasing variety of physical visualizations are being built. However, crafting them remains a laborious process and demands expertise in both data visualization and digital fabrication. We present the MakerVis prototype, the first tool that integrates the whole workflow, from data filtering to physical fabrication.[more coming soon]