Beyond Skin Deep: Generative Co-Design for Aesthetic Prosthetics

Feng Zhou; Steven D Benford; Sarah Whatley; Kate Marsh; Ian Ashcroft; Tanja  Erhart; Welly O'Brien; Paul Tennent

doi:10.1145/3544548.3580803

Beyond Skin Deep: Generative Co-Design for Aesthetic Prosthetics

Feng Zhou, Steven D Benford, Sarah Whatley, Kate Marsh, Ian Ashcroft, Tanja Erhart, Welly O'Brien, Paul Tennent

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Abstract

There is a trend for handcrafting bespoke prostheses that embody their wearers’ aesthetic tastes and identities. We explore how this might be extended by enabling users to co-design with algorithms. We report a design-led exploration (Figure 1) in which professional disabled dancers danced with a generative design algorithm to create personalised designs called aesthetic seeds. Further algorithms applied these to prosthetic greaves, rendering them in various materials before optimising for additive manufacture. Interviews with our dancers revealed that the aesthetics of prosthetics reach beyond visual decoration to encompass form, function, bodily experience, body image, and identity; that interactions with generative design algorithms can harness people’s expressive and aesthetic skills; and that we must redesign supporting technologies for diverse bodies. We generalise our findings into a process for how people may co-design 3D printable products with algorithms.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI'23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Albrecht Schmidt, Kaisa Väänänen, Tesh Goyal, Per Ola Kristensson, Anicia Peters, Stefanie Mueller, Julie R. Williamson, Max L. Wilson
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450394215
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580803
Publication status	Published - 19 Apr 2023
Event	CHI '23: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Congress Centre Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Duration: 23 Apr 2023 → 28 Apr 2023 https://chi2023.acm.org/

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

Conference	CHI '23: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	23/04/23 → 28/04/23
Internet address	https://chi2023.acm.org/

Keywords

additive manufacture
aesthetics
assistive technologies
design methods
disabled dance artists
embodied interaction
personalisation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Zhou, F., Benford, S. D., Whatley, S., Marsh, K., Ashcroft, I., Erhart, T., O'Brien, W., & Tennent, P. (2023). Beyond Skin Deep: Generative Co-Design for Aesthetic Prosthetics. In A. Schmidt, K. Väänänen, T. Goyal, P. O. Kristensson, A. Peters, S. Mueller, J. R. Williamson, & M. L. Wilson (Eds.), CHI'23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 128 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580803

Beyond Skin Deep: Generative Co-Design for Aesthetic Prosthetics. / Zhou, Feng; Benford, Steven D; Whatley, Sarah et al.
CHI'23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Albrecht Schmidt; Kaisa Väänänen; Tesh Goyal; Per Ola Kristensson; Anicia Peters; Stefanie Mueller; Julie R. Williamson; Max L. Wilson. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023. 128 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

Zhou, F, Benford, SD, Whatley, S , Marsh, K, Ashcroft, I, Erhart, T, O'Brien, W & Tennent, P 2023, Beyond Skin Deep: Generative Co-Design for Aesthetic Prosthetics. in A Schmidt, K Väänänen, T Goyal, PO Kristensson, A Peters, S Mueller, JR Williamson & ML Wilson (eds), CHI'23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 128, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), CHI '23: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 23/04/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580803

Zhou F, Benford SD, Whatley S , Marsh K, Ashcroft I, Erhart T et al. Beyond Skin Deep: Generative Co-Design for Aesthetic Prosthetics. In Schmidt A, Väänänen K, Goyal T, Kristensson PO, Peters A, Mueller S, Williamson JR, Wilson ML, editors, CHI'23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2023. 128. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3544548.3580803

Zhou, Feng ; Benford, Steven D ; Whatley, Sarah et al. / Beyond Skin Deep : Generative Co-Design for Aesthetic Prosthetics. CHI'23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. editor / Albrecht Schmidt ; Kaisa Väänänen ; Tesh Goyal ; Per Ola Kristensson ; Anicia Peters ; Stefanie Mueller ; Julie R. Williamson ; Max L. Wilson. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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