FabricatINK: Personal Fabrication of Bespoke Displays Using Electronic Ink from Upcycled E Readers

Ollie Hanton; Zichao Shen; Mike Fraser; Anne Roudaut

doi:10.1145/3491102.3501844

FabricatINK: Personal Fabrication of Bespoke Displays Using Electronic Ink from Upcycled E Readers

Ollie Hanton, Zichao Shen, Mike Fraser, Anne Roudaut

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Abstract

FabricatINK explores the personal fabrication of irregularly-shaped low-power displays using electronic ink (E ink). E ink is a programmable bicolour material used in traditional form-factors such as E readers. It has potential for more versatile use within the scope of personal fabrication of custom-shaped displays, and it has the promise to be the pre-eminent material choice for this purpose. We appraise technical literature to identify properties of E ink, suited to fabrication. We identify a key roadblock, universal access to E ink as a material, and we deliver a method to circumvent this by upcycling broken electronics. We subsequently present a novel fabrication method for irregularly-shaped E ink displays. We demonstrate our fabrication process and E ink's versatility through ten prototypes showing different applications and use cases. By addressing E ink as a material for display fabrication, we uncover the potential for users to create custom-shaped truly bistable displays.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450391573
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501844
Publication status	Published - 29 Apr 2022
Event	2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: 30 Apr 2022 → 5 May 2022

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

Conference	2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	30/04/22 → 5/05/22

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© 2022 ACM.

Research Groups and Themes

Bristol Interaction Group

Keywords

Display
E ink
E reader
Electrophoretic
Fabrication
Free-Form Display
Prototyping

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Hanton, O., Shen, Z., Fraser, M., & Roudaut, A. (2022). FabricatINK: Personal Fabrication of Bespoke Displays Using Electronic Ink from Upcycled E Readers. In CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 173 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501844

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Hanton, O, Shen, Z, Fraser, M & Roudaut, A 2022, FabricatINK: Personal Fabrication of Bespoke Displays Using Electronic Ink from Upcycled E Readers. in CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 173, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022, Virtual, Online, United States, 30/04/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501844

FabricatINK: Personal Fabrication of Bespoke Displays Using Electronic Ink from Upcycled E Readers. / Hanton, Ollie; Shen, Zichao; Fraser, Mike et al.
CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022. 173 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Hanton O, Shen Z, Fraser M , Roudaut A. FabricatINK: Personal Fabrication of Bespoke Displays Using Electronic Ink from Upcycled E Readers. In CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2022. 173. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3491102.3501844

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