CHI’22 Course: Prototyping Transparent and Flexible Electrochromic Displays

On this site you will find all materials used and presented in the course, as well as further literature to extend your exploration into producing electrochromic displays.

Slides:

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Literature:

Prototyping:

• Jensen, W., Colley, A., Häkkilä, J., Pinheiro, C., & Löchtefeld, M. (2019). TransPrint: A method for fabricating flexible transparent free-form displays. Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, 2019.
• Suyash Junnarkar, Xiangyi (Lily) Yang, Morgan Drawdy, Inika Gupta, Woon-Hong Yeo, Noah Posner, and Sang-won Leigh. 2021. Exploiting the Slowness of Electrochromic Displays. 2021 International Symposium on Wearable Computers.

Application Cases:

• Jensen, W., Löchtefeld, M., & Knoche, H. (2019, May). ShadowLamp: An Ambient Display with Controllable Shadow Projection using Electrochromic Materials. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-6).
• Jensen, W., Knoche, H., & Löchtefeld, M. (2020, June). “Do you think it is going to be the cock?” using ambient shadow projection in dialogic reading. In Proceedings of the 9TH ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (pp. 97-103).
• Jensen, W., Streubel Kristensen, T., Sand Kirk, C., Hameed, H. A., Bergmann Villadsen, D., & Löchtefeld, M. (2020, April). Hybrid Settlers-Integrating Dynamic Tiles into a Physical Board Game Using Electrochromic Displays. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-7).
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• Colley, A., Gröhn, W., & Häkkilä, J. (2021). CleanLeaf Table: Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 through Smart Surfaces. In 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2021), December 5–8, 2021, Leuven, Belgium. ACM.. ACM.

Wearables:

• Jensen, W., Colley, A., & Löchtefeld, M. (2019, September). VitaBoot: footwear with dynamic graphical patterning. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 279-283).
• Jarusriboonchai, P., Harjuniemi, E., Müller, H., Colley, A., & Häkkilä, J. (2019, September). Linn dress: enabling a dynamically adjustable neckline. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 274-278).
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• Genç, Ç., Colley, A., Löchtefeld, M., & Häkkilä, J. (2020, September). Face mask design to mitigate facial expression occlusion. In Proceedings of the 2020 international symposium on wearable computers (pp. 40-44).
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• Genç, Ç., Kantola, V., & Häkkilä, J. (2020, November). DecoLive Jacket with Battery-free Dynamic Graphics. In 19th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (pp. 338-340).

Learning:

• Jensen, W., Craft, B., Löchtefeld, M., & Bjørn, P. (2022). Learning through interactive artifacts: Personal fabrication using electrochromic displays to remember Atari women programmers. Entertainment Computing, 40, 100464.
• Löchtefeld, M., Milthers, A. D. B., & Merritt, T. (2021). Staging Constructionist Learning about Energy for Children with Electrochromic Displays and Low-Cost Materials. In 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. Association for Computing Machinery.

Construction Video:

DecoChrom Adobe Illustrator Extension:

Here you can find the Adobe Illustrator extension that helps you creating the needed print materials as well as masks for lasercutting the spacers: https://github.com/DecoChrom/IllustratorExtension/tree/master

Arduino Examples:

You can find several examples of how to control the displays using an Arduino here: https://github.com/DecoChrom/Arduino