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PV-Pix: Slum Community Co-design of Self-Powered Deformable Smart Messaging Materials

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Dani Kalarikalayil Raju,

Krishna Seunarine,

Thomas Reitmaier,

Yogesh Kumar Meena,

Jennifer Pearson,

Simon Robinson,

Deepak Ranjan Sahoo,

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CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445661

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Working with emergent users in two of Mumbai’s slums, we explored the value and uses of photovoltaic (PV) self-powering digital materials. Through a series of co-design workshops, a diary study and responses by artists and craftspeople, we developed the PV-Pix concept for inter-home connections. Each PV-Pix element consists of a deformable energy harvesting material that, when actuated by a person in one home, changes its physical state both there and in a connected home. To explore the concept we considered two forms of PV-Pix: one uses rigid materials and the other flexible ones. We deployed two low-fidelity prototypes, each constructed of a grid of one PV-Pix type, in four slum homes over a four week period to further understand the usability and uses of the materials, eliciting interesting inter-family communication practices. Encouraged by these results we report on a first-step towards working prototypes and demonstrate the technical viability of the approach.

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Seunarine KKalarikalayil Raju DThomas GThomas SPockett AReitmaier TSteer COwen TMeena YRobinson SPearson JCarnie MSahoo DJones M(2022)Light-In-Light-Out (Li-Lo) Displays: Harvesting and Manipulating Light to Provide Novel Forms of CommunicationProceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3491102.3517730(1-15)Online publication date: 29-Apr-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491102.3517730
Zhang DFuentes-Hernandez CVijayan RZhang YLi YPark JWang YZhao YArora NMirzazadeh ADo YCheng TSwaminathan SStarner TAndrew TAbowd G(2022)Flexible computational photodetectors for self-powered activity sensingnpj Flexible Electronics10.1038/s41528-022-00137-z6:1Online publication date: 27-Jan-2022
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41528-022-00137-z

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