3D Competence Center // 3D-Kompetenzzentrum Niederrhein
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Our lab has been running Germany's first Fab Lab since 2009. In 2015, we acquired 1M€ of funding from the EU and the state of NRW through their Regio.NRW initiative for a three-year research agenda into future user interfaces for personal design and personal fabrication. Our work is part of the 3D Competence Center, a collaboration headed by the University of Applied Sciences Rhein-Waal, and with the University of Applied Sciences Ruhr-West, to form a digital fabrication competence center. We also offer the Fab Academy curriculum in collaboration with MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld at each of our three locations.
Team
Student Assistants: Ilja Golland, Philip Kindermann, Kirill Krasnoshchokov, Tony Zhang, David Garcia Olivares, Kerstin Kreutz
Projects
Springlets
Expressive, Flexible and Silent On-Skin Tactile Interfaces (CHI 2019)
Publications
- Nur Al-huda Hamdan, Adrian Wagner, Simon Voelker, Jürgen Steimle and Jan Borchers. Demonstration of Springlets: Expressive, Flexible and Silent On-Skin Tactile Interfaces. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA '19, ACM, New York, NY, USA, May 2019.
- Anke Brocker, Simon Voelker, Tony Zelun Zhang, Mathis Müller and Jan Borchers. Flowboard: A Visual Flow-Based Programming Environment for Embedded Coding. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA '19, ACM, New York, NY, USA, May 2019.
- Nur Al-huda Hamdan, Adrian Wagner, Simon Voelker, Jürgen Steimle and Jan Borchers. Springlets: Expressive, Flexible and Silent On-Skin Tactile Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '19, ACM, New York, NY, USA, May 2019.
- David Garcia Olivares. The Smart-Glove Maker: An Embroidery-Based Pipeline for Fabricating Smart-Gloves. Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, November 2018.
- Georg Röhl. Interactive Brooches: Physical Interfaces on Smart Textiles. Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, September 2018.
- Philip Kindermann. Embroidered touchpad sensors. Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, April 2018.
- Vyacheslav Kryvosheya. Haptic Stickers: Thin, Flexible On-Skin Haptic Devices. Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, February 2018.
- Nur Al-huda Hamdan, Simon Voelker and Jan Borchers. Sketch&Stitch: Interactive Embroidery for E-Textiles. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '18, pages 82:1–82:13, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2018.