Materials Scientist Gone Rogue Now: @MIT @MediaLab PhD+MS Then: @CarnegieMellon BS
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Full video on my technique for #3Dprinting #fabric by under-extruding: vimeo.com/465508515
The 3D printer forms the macroscopic shape
The stringing effect of filament is responsible for the microscopic texture.
Think of it as a collaboration between material and machine
Excited to share our team's project in combining traditional weaving craft with shape-shifting fibers to make entirely soft, shape-shifting fabric. Textile structures are endless in complexity, but also opportunity!
This work appeared in @SciReports (@NaturePortfolio). Authors: Sarah Nicita, James C. Weaver, Hiroshi Ishii (@ishii_mit), and Jack Forman (@formanfunction). nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
And continuing the second annual Out in HCI lunch! Both of these events received wonderful feedback last year, it’s such a pleasure to organize (and attend!) Thanks to my killer co-chair @tichaesque ✨
Lots of exciting things happening at UIST this year!! I've had the pleasure of being Community Co-Chair with @formanfunction and will be moderating the Women's Lunch Panel on 9/29! ✨ We have a fabulous set of panelists across academia & industry. Join us! 👩🏻🔬👩🏾💻 (poster by Jack!)
ALT Poster for the UIST 2025 Women's Lunch Panel on 9/29 with panelists Ticha Sethapakdi, Prof. Elena Glassman, Dr. Meredith Morris, Prof. Jingyi Li, Prof. Megan Hofmann, and Dr. Mira Dontcheva. (poster designed by Jack Forman)
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.@MIT's Voxel Invention Kit is like grown-up LEGOs — strong, reusable blocks with built-in electronics for rapid, waste-free prototyping. hackster.io/news/think-insid…
Super proud of this work on super-lego that I did with my amazing co-first author Miana Smith!
A paper by Media Lab researchers and collaborators, to appear at @acm_chi 2025, describes a new rapid-prototyping platform called VIK (Voxel Invention Kit) that utilizes reconfigurable building blocks with integrated electronics. The system can be assembled into complex, functional devices, with potential applications in areas ranging from space fabrication to the development of smart buildings and intelligent infrastructure for sustainable cities. Co-lead author @formanfunction, a PhD student in the Tangible Media group and an affiliate of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), says, “This is about democratizing access to functional interactive devices. With VIK, there is no 3D printing or laser cutting required. If you just have the voxel faces, you are able to produce these interactive structures anywhere you want.”
news.mit.edu/2025/new-platfo…
ALT A person stands on stairs made of square voxels, lit by blue and purple light.
What a wonderful delight! Doga and I worked on this paper over Covid lockdown, where it felt like the two of us were totally alone in our rabbit hole. To see it appreciated by others makes me so happy!
Got an exciting notification today🤩
Our DefeXtiles paper (UIST'20) got its 100th citation!
🔗 scholar.google.com/citations…
💪 @formanfunction @ishii_mit @ACMUIST @ACMDL
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Got an exciting notification today🤩
Our DefeXtiles paper (UIST'20) got its 100th citation!
🔗 scholar.google.com/citations…
💪 @formanfunction @ishii_mit @ACMUIST @ACMDL
So proud of my team! We were the student runner up for Emerging Technology, and Student Notable for Interaction!
Congratulations to all of the winners and honorees of the 2024 @core77 Design Awards, including Media Lab researcher @formanfunction and the FibeRobo team, alum @chelsi_alise, and spinoffs Butlr and @elroyair! media.mit.edu/posts/the-medi…
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Watch: In "Scientific InQueery," MIT PhD students @formanfunction + @mirandadawson51, with @mit_dmse alum Tunahan Aytas, interviewed queer MIT faculty about finding community and living their authentic lives.
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FibeRobo, developed by an interdisciplinary team at MIT, represents a significant innovation in the textile industry. It's a liquid crystal elastomer fiber capable of changing its shape in response to temperature changes.
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Asked chatGPT for a queered explanation of cooper pairing in quantum mechanics. Honestly love the result:
This is a wonderful opportunity for young fabrication researchers on a beautiful campus (Cornell Tech), in a wonderful city (NYC), with a fantastic advisor! I would've applied myself :D
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Check out this incredible work on programmable shape-shifting fiber from @formanfunction @ozgunkilic @CedHon @ishii_mit @tangiblebits
news.mit.edu/2023/shape-shif…
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HCI community, please help spread the news! In an effort to be inclusive in forming the UIST2024 organizing committee, @mynkgoel and I, as the general co-chairs, are issuing this open call to HCI researchers. We welcome you from everywhere around the world! # UIST2024@Pittsburgh.
Call to be an organizing committee member for UIST 2024. Help us organize UIST by applying to be a part of the organizing committee. Please fill out linked form by September 15th. It should not take more than 10 minutes to complete. forms.gle/zV1366D3uDTFLJKSA
Super exciting Laboratory Director opening for my lab @mit with Prof. Neil Gershenfeld. Polyjet printers! Zund Cutters! 5 axis mills! Brilliant people! Electron Microscopes! All at your disposal! cba.mit.edu/l/labdir
#3dprinting #cnc #lasercut #makers #fabrication #hacker
Special recognition for outstanding review 🎉 (If I collect enough, can I cash them in for free conference registration :P) #uist2023
Had the wonderful honor of hosting the first #CHI2023 session “Interactive Surfaces”. Filled back to back with absolutely brilliant papers and people. Thank you everyone who bared with (and even laughed at) my puns!
Super popular #CHI2023 session "Interactive Surfaces" chaired by @FormanFunction – great to see G-ID (@sigchi'20) and InfraredTags (@sigchi'22) recognized by Ma et al. 🤓😊
What an amazing start to the conference :) - thanks @ken0324
