COURSES

“I Hear and I Forget, I See and I Remember, I Do and I Understand.” --Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

DEA 6040 FUTURE BODY CRAFT: Fabricating On-Skin Interfaces

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Semesters Offered: Typically each Fall (FA2022, FA2021, FA2020) *Permission of the Instructor. To be considered for enrollment, please fill out the course enrollment survey and come to the first class.

This course explores the intersectional field of Hybrid Body Craft, which applies design, engineering, and social science research for hybridizing emerging slim technology with existing cultural body crafting practices. Examined through the lens of on-skin interfaces (i.e., smart tattoos and bandages) and electronic textiles in Human-Computer Interaction and Wearable & Ubiquitous Computing, students will develop prototyping skills in soft circuitry through tailored hands-on labs developed by the Hybrid Body Lab and critically reflect on representative papers in the field through readings and discussions. The skills students develop in the course will cumulate in the prototyping and design of a final project: a Future Body Craft of their choice.

Student Publications of DEA6040 Future Body Craft Projects:

SkinLace: Freestanding Lace by Machine Embroidery for On-Skin Interface Jeyeon Jo, Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA) 2021 [PDF | DOI]

DynamicSkin: Bio-inspired Scaled Sleeve for Body Temperature Regulation and Dynamic Self-Expression Yuanhao Zhu, Annice Lee, Ziyue Hu, Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, Extended Abstract Proceedings of Augmented Humans 2022. 🏆 BEST POSTER AWARD

Sparkle: A Detachable and Versatile Wearable Sensing Platform in a Sustainable Casing Adrash Ravi, Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, Extended Abstract Proceedings of Augmented Humans 2021 [PDF | DOI]

ON-SKIN INTERFACE PROTOTYPING TUTORIALS IN DEA6040

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DEA 1110/COGST 1111 MAKING A DIFFERENCE BY DESIGN

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Semesters Offered: Typically each Fall (FA2022, FA2021, FA2020, FA2019)

This is an introductory lecture course for non-designers and designers alike, which aims to expose first year undergraduates to emerging forms of design and its unlimited creative possibilities. With a focus on designs of the 21st century (and beyond!), this course introduces how design can offer an alternative, and often more human- and environmentally engaged perspective towards solving the most pressing challenges our planet is facing today. Through a broad range of design examples, this course aims to widen and cultivate student's design literacy on emerging forms of design applied, per Oxman and Yoon: “across disciplines, scales, and problem contexts.” It invites and challenges students to adopt a holistic lens to what Design can, could, and should be.  

With technology becoming an essential toolbox for the designers of today— and the future— this course examines the role of design in wearable computing, virtual and tangible interfaces, artificial intelligence, robotics to biology. The course also applies a design lens to pressing societal challenges around sustainability, healthy environments, human development, diversity, inclusion, and social justice. Each week, through curated design examples, DEA 1110 explores how designing is part of every discipline. The goal is to, in turn, invite students to examine how design affects them—personally and globally — and how they can apply Design to innovate and make a difference in their future select field of expertise.

DEA 2200 ART+SCIENCE

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Semesters Offered: Typically each Spring (SP2023, SP2022, SP2021, SP2020)

Philosophers, poets, makers, and doers have all discussed and argued the relationship between art and science. This course continues the dialog in order to investigate the creative role of art and science in a variety of disciplines. Sustainability, global health, multiculturalism, diversity, and transdisciplinarity will be explored as manifestations of integrated and expanding minds and communities. Students will examine architecture, dance, fashion, animation, mathematics, music, networked aesthetics, and photography, all in the context of art and science. Applications will be made to several disciplines, in celebration of the importance of coalescing the artistic and scientific characteristics of individuals and disciplines. This course is of interest to all students who would like to explore the role of art and science in creativity.

The delivery of this course combines lecture/seminar and active learning lab formats. The Art+Science presentations will be provided by the instructor and by guest lecturers from a range of disciplines.