(Re) activate,(Re) direct,(Re) arrange: Exploring the Design Space of Direct Interactions with Flavobacteria

C Risseeuw, H Mcquillan, J Martins… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
HCI designers increasingly engage in the integration of microbes into artefacts, leveraging
their distinct biological affordances for novel interactions. While in many explorations the …

Living with Cyanobacteria: Exploring Materiality in Caring for Microbes in Everyday Life

J Zhou, Z Doubrovski, E Giaccardi… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Materiality of artefacts holds the potential to intricately and dynamically shape our daily
practices. We posit this capacity can be harnessed in fostering creative unfolding of …

Becoming microbes: An approach to cultivating microbial sensibilities in biodesign

J Kim, R Kim, J Martins, E Karana - 2024 - dl.designresearchsociety.org
Microbes assume an indispensable role in design, given their inherent adaptability,
functional diversity, and abundance. Yet, designing with microbes presents notable …

A Case Study in Natural Fibre Material (Luffa Sponge) Development Using E2-Material-Driven Design

C Li, L Wang, L Zhang - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
To unleash the emotional potential of natural fibre materials in sustainable development and
utilisation, this paper presents a material-driven design method with emotional and …

AI as a Child of Mother Earth: Regrounding Human-AI Interaction in Ecological Thinking

C Xu, X Ge - Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The anthropocentric cultural idea that humans are active agents exerting control over their
environments has been largely normalized and inscribed in practices, policies, and products …

Addressing Uncertainty in Biodesign through Digital Twins: A Case of Biofabrication with Mycelium

ĐV Vu, M Funk, YC Huang, B Barati - ACM Transactions on Computer …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
New digital tools offer biodesign with unprecedented opportunities for monitoring,
fabricating, iterating, and scaling designs. Serving aligned purposes and beyond, the Digital …