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Foldio: Digital Fabrication of Interactive and Shape-Changing Objects With Foldable Printed Electronics

Simon Olberding, Sergio Soto Ortega, Klaus Hildebrandt, and Jürgen Steimle

a) Foldios are designed in 3D. Print&fold layouts are automatically generated, including customized printable electronics for sensing and output. The technique enables quick, easy and inexpensive fabrication of a wide variety of folded interactive objects, including b) UbiComp devices, c) actuated shape-changing objects and d) lightweight paper crafts.

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Foldios are foldable interactive objects with embedded input sensing and output capabilities. Foldios combine the strengths of folding for thin, lightweight and shapechanging objects with the strengths of thin-film printed electronics for embedded sensing and output. To enable designers and end-users to create highly custom interactive foldable objects, we contribute a new design and fabrication approach. It allows to design the foldable object in a standard 3D environment and to add interactive high-level controls, removing the need to manually design a fold pattern and low-level circuits for printed electronics. Second, we contribute a set of printable user interface controls for touch input and display output on folded objects. Moreover, we contribute controls for sensing and actuation of shapechangeable objects. We demonstrate the versatility of the approach with a variety of interactive objects that have been fabricated with this framework.

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Simon Olberding, Sergio Soto Ortega, Klaus Hildebrandt, and Jürgen Steimle, Foldio: Digital Fabrication of Interactive and Shape-Changing Objects With Foldable Printed Electronics, In Proceedings of UIST, pp. 223–232, 2015.

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@inproceedings{bib:olberding:2015,
    author       = { Olberding, Simon and Soto Ortega, Sergio and Hildebrandt, Klaus and Steimle, Jürgen },    
    title        = { Foldio: Digital Fabrication of Interactive and Shape-Changing Objects With Foldable Printed Electronics },
    booktitle    = { In Proceedings of UIST },
    year         = { 2015 },
    pages        = { 223--232 },
    doi          = { 10.1145/2807442.2807494 },
    dblp         = { conf/uist/OlberdingOHS15 },
    url          = { https://publications.graphics.tudelft.nl/papers/257 },
}