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Buso, A. (author), McQuillan, H.L. (author), Voorwinden, M. (author), Karana, E. (author)A woven textile-form is a form that is constructed simultaneously as the textile is woven. Interfaces designed with this approach hold undisclosed potential for rich interactions. However, the design of woven textile-form interfaces requires specialised tacit knowledge, which is limited even in craft and practice spaces; and it is therefore...conference paper 2023
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Buso, A. (author), McQuillan, H.L. (author), Voorwinden, M. (author), Karana, E. (author)In this paper, we explore how textile-form thinking, i.e., the simultaneous design and construction of the textile and form, can be leveraged as a strategy to embrace and unlock the performative potential of woven interactive textiles to building towards more intuitive interactions with woven interactive textiles in our everyday. First, we...conference paper 2023
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- Risseeuw, C.C. (author), Martinez Castro, J.F. (author), Barla, Pascal (author), Karana, E. (author) conference paper 2023
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Karana, E. (author), McQuillan, H.L. (author), Rognoli, Valentina (author), Giaccardi, Elisa (author)Introduced in 2020, the notion of living artefacts encompasses biodesign outcomes that maintain the vitality of organisms such as fungi, algae, bacteria, and plants in the use of everyday artefacts, enabling new functions, interactions, and expressions within our daily lives. This paper situates living artefacts at the intersection of the...journal article 2023
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Oh, J.J. (author), Ammu, S.K. (author), Vriend-Harwig, V.D. (author), Kieffer, R.Y. (author), Dr. Kleiner, F.K. (author), Balasubramanian, S. (author), Karana, E. (author), Masania, K. (author), Aubin-Tam, M.E. (author)Engineered living materials (ELMs) are a novel class of functional materials that typically feature spatial confinement of living components within an inert polymer matrix to recreate biological functions. Understanding the growth and spatial configuration of cellular populations within a matrix is crucial to predicting and improving their...journal article 2023
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Zhou, J. (author), Kim, Raphael (author), Doubrovski, E.L. (author), Soares de Oliveira Martins, J. (author), Giaccardi, Elisa (author), Karana, E. (author)Microbes offer designers opportunities to endow artefacts with environmental sensing and adapting abilities, and unique expressions. However, microbe-embedded artefacts present a challenge of temporal dissonance, reflected by a “time lag” typically experienced by humans in noticing the gradual and minute shifts in microbial metabolism. This...conference paper 2023
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Carrete, Israel A. (author), Ghodrat, S. (author), Scherer, Diana (author), Karana, E. (author)Plant root growth can be altered by introducing obstacles in the path of growth. This principle is used in design to produce planar grid structures composed of interweaving roots. The Engineered Plant Root Materials (EPRMs) grown with this method have the potential to serve as environmentally sensitive alternatives for conventional materials,...journal article 2023
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McQuillan, H.L. (author), Karana, E. (author)Technology embeddedness in HCI textiles has great potential for enabling novel interactions and enriched experiences, but unless carefully designed, could inadvertently worsen HCI’s sustainability problem. In an attempt to bridge sustainable debates and practical material-driven scholarship in HCI, we propose Multimorphic Textile-forms (MMTF),...conference paper 2023
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Kim, Raphael (author), Risseeuw, C.C. (author), Groutars, E.G. (author), Karana, E. (author)In recent years, there has been a notable proliferation and diversification of works in HCI, that integrate living microorganisms; an imperative lifeform dominating ecosystems of our planet. Yet despite the growing interest, there is a lack of structured lenses with which designers can strategize their processes of surfacing livingness; a...conference paper 2023
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Martínez Castro, J.F. (author), Buso, A. (author), Wu, J. (author), Karana, E. (author)Shape-changing textile interfaces have the potential to create unique functions, expressions, and interactions in everyday artifacts. However, the technical expertise required to fabricate and interact with these interfaces limits designers from rapidly iterating through diverse textile expressions. This pictorial presents TEX(alive), a low...conference paper 2022
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Ertürkan, H. (author), Karana, E. (author), Mugge, R. (author)Living materials are a nascent material class where living organisms are embedded and kept alive in the design outcome to achieve novel functionalities, expressions, and interactions. Experiential characterisation studies with potential endusers will provide insights for developing these novel materials for meaningful material<br/>applications....conference paper 2022
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Kim, Raphael (author), Zhou, J. (author), Groutars, E.G. (author), Karana, E. (author)Biodesign is an emerging form of design practice integrating biological materials and processes, and there is a growing interest in the field for structured conversations to generate insights on how it can be best taught, researched, and disseminated. In our conversations, we began exploring biodesign under the framework of Living Artefacts, in...conference paper 2022
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Buso, A. (author), McQuillan, H.L. (author), Jansen, K.M.B. (author), Karana, E. (author)Designers of textile-based interactive systems tend to treat woven fabrics as static materials and lack deeper understandings of how the textile can be designed for responsive behaviours in artefacts. As a result, in most studies across design and HCI, textiles are employed as substrates for computational, biological, or smart materials. This...conference paper 2022
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- Ng, S.M. (author), Barati, B. (author), Karana, E. (author) conference paper 2022
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Zhou, J. (author), Barati, B. (author), Giaccardi, Elisa (author), Karana, E. (author)This paper offers a taxonomy of digital tools for crafting habitabilities in biodesign practices. Over the past decade, interest has grown among design and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) scholars to explore the potentials of living organisms for novel responsive behavior and interaction possibilities. Yet, to date, it remains unexplored how...journal article 2022
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Groutars, E.G. (author), Risseeuw, C.C. (author), Ingham, Colin (author), Hamidjaja, Raditijo (author), Elkhuizen, W.S. (author), Pont, S.C. (author), Karana, E. (author)Flavobacteria, which can be found in marine environments, are able to grow in highly organized colonies producing vivid iridescent colorations. While much is known about the biology of these organisms, their design potential as responsive media in user interfaces has not been explored. Our paper aims at bridging this gap by providing insights...conference paper 2022
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Barati, B. (author), Karana, E. (author), Pont, S.C. (author), van Dortmont, T. (author)This paper aims to provide first insights into flash characteristics of bioluminescent microalgae as a potential media for future living light interfaces. A growing number of HCI and interaction design researchers show interest in living material interfaces, which incorporate living organisms for novel responsive behaviour and interaction...conference paper 2021
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Zhou, J. (author), Barati, Bahareh (author), Wu, J. (author), Scherer, Diana (author), Karana, E. (author)Technological and economic opportunities, alongside the apparent ecological benefits, point to biodesign as a new industrial paradigm for the fabrication of products in the twenty-first century. The presented work studies plant roots as a biodesign material in the fabrication of self-supported 3D structures, where the biologically and...journal article 2021
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Balasubramanian, S. (author), Yu, K. (author), Meyer, Anne S. (author), Karana, E. (author), Aubin-Tam, M.E. (author)Living materials, which are fabricated by encapsulating living biological cells within a non-living matrix, have gained increasing attention in recent years. Their fabrication in spatially defined patterns that are mechanically robust is essential for their optimal functional performance but is difficult to achieve. Here, a bioprinting...journal article 2021
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D'Olivo, P. (author), Karana, E. (author)Advances in biodesign offer opportunities for developing materials for everyday products from living organisms, such as fungi, algae, and bacteria. Gaining widespread acceptance of new materials from the general public can be a lengthy process, making biodesign a high-risk pursuit with potentially significant economic, ecological, and social...journal article 2021