Morphing Pasta and Beyond.

Ye Tao, Yi-Chin Lee, Haolin Liu, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Jianxun Cui, Catherine Mondoa, Mahnoush Babaei, Jasio Santillan, Guanyun Wang, Danli Luo, Di Liu, Humphrey Yang, Youngwook Do, Lingyun Sun, Wen Wang✉, Teng Zhang✉, Lining Yao✉

Science Advances Cover Feature 2021 May 5 PDF | DOI | Project Page | Video 1 | Video 2
🏅 Honors: Cover Story of Science Advances, Fast Company Innovation by Design Award | Creative Food Cycles Honorable Mention Award
📣News: New York Times , Science Magzine, Scientific American, Fast Company, National Geographic, PBS, BBC, ABC NEWS, Science Friday, Smithsonian Magzine, Inverse, UK Daily Mail, Science News, Designboom, Yahoo, GIZMODO, TechXpore, physicsworld, NewScientist, cnet | Tracking Live Metrics
🗃 Patent 1, Patent 2

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2021, National Science Foundation CAREER award.

• 2020, South by South West (SXSW)’s Innovation Awards Finalist (for ElectroDermis w/ Carmel Majidi and students; link)

• 2019, Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards, New York (for Morphlour w/ students; link)

• 2019, Dezeen Design Longlist (for ElectroDermis w/ Carmel Majidi and students; link)

• 2019, Honorable Mention, Creative Food Cycles (for Morphlour w/ students)

• 2018, Appointed Instructor by United Nation Industrial Development Organization

• 2018, Ars Electronica STARTS award, Linz, Austria (for Printed Paper Actuator w/ students; link)

• 2017, YouFab Global Creative Award, Tokyo, Japan (for Transformative Appetite w/ Wen Wang, et al.; link)

• 2017, Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award Winner, New York (for bioLogic w/ Wen Wang, et al.; link)

• 2017, Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award Finalist, New York (for reForm w/ Jifei Ou, Daniel Tauber and Hiroshi Ishii; link)

• 2016, Golden A' Design Award Winner for Wearable Technologies Design Category, Como, Italy (for biologic w/ Wen Wang, et al.; link)

• 2016, Silver A' Design Award Winner for Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design Category, Como, Italy (for biologic w/ Wen Wang, et al.; link)

• 2016, Platinum A' Design Award Winner for Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design Category in 2015 (for biologic w/ Wen Wang, et al.; link)

• 2015, Wired UK Innovation Fellow, London, UK (link)

• 2015, IxDA Interaction Award, USA (for reForm w/ Jifei Ou, Daniel Tauber and Hiroshi Ishii; link)

• 2015, Core 77 Community Choice Award and Interaction Student Notable Nomination, USA (for reForm w/ Jifei Ou and Daniel Tauber; link)

• 2015, Best Paper Talk Award, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Seoul, Korea (w/ Jifei Ou, et al.)

• 2015, Paper Honorable Mention Award, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Seoul, Korea (w/ Jifei Ou, et al.)

• 2015, iF Student Design Award, Germany

• 2014-2015, MIT Art Council Award, Cambridge, USA

• 2014, NEC Research Fellow

• 2013 – 2014, NEC Research Fellow, Tokyo, Japan

• 2013, Best Paper Award, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), St Andrews, UK (w/ Ryuma Niiyama, et al.)

• 2013, Best Demo Award, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), St Andrews, UK (w/ Ryuma Niiyama, et al.)

• 2012 – 2013, Cisco Research Fellow

• 2010, Red Dot "Best of the Best" Design Award, Germany

• 2010, iF Student Design Awards, Germany

• 2009, Red Dot Student Design Award, Germany

SERVICE TO THE FIELD

• 2020, Associate Chair | ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphic and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH ASIA, Emerging Tech).

• 2021 & 2020 & 2019 & 2018, Associate Chair | ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

• 2020 & 2018 & 2016, Associate Chair | ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).

• 2020, Invited keynote in American Physics Society (APS) march meeting.

• 2019, General Co-Chair | ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF). 

• 2019, Doctoral communication advisory panel at Gordon Research Conference on Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems. 

• 2018, Associate Chair | ACM Design Interactive Systems (DIS).

• 2018, Advisor, international design workshop in Zhejiang University.

• 2017, Associate Chair | Design and Semantics of Form and Movement (DESFORM).

• 2016, Student Innovation Contest Chair | ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).

TEACHING

05-499/899 Inclusive Tangible and Material Interfaces

Instructor: Lining Yao (course creator)
Grad and Undergrad, special topic (30 students)

This course is a hybrid of lecture and hands-on lab course in which students learn the science and design principles of tangible and morphing materials and interfaces. In parallel, inclusive design guidelines will be introduced and practiced for the final project. 

05-499/899 Morphing Materials: from Programmable to Learning Matter

Instructor: Lining Yao (course creator)
Grad and Undergrad, special topic (30 students)

This course teaches the designing, printing and engineering of morphing matter- the creation of new materials that can change their shapes. The course consists of both design and technical lectures, light weight hands-on lab sessions, and two interdisciplinary team projects.

05-392/692 Interaction Design Overview

Instructor: Karen Kornblum , Lining Yao
Undergrad, primary course (40 students)

This studio course offers a broad overview of communication and interaction design. Students will learn design methodologies such as brainstorming, sketching, storyboarding, wire framing, and prototyping. Students learn to take a human-centered design approach to their work.

05-651 Interaction Design Studio

Instructor: Skip Shelly, Paul Pangaro, Karen Kornblum, Lining, Laura Vinchesi
Grad, primary course (120 students)

This studio course introduces students to design thinking and the basic practices of interaction design. We follow a human-centered design process that includes research, concept generation, prototyping, and refinement.

SELECTED PUBLIC TALKS AND INTERVIEWS

• 2020, Keynote speaker at the FabLearn conference hosted by Columbia University Teachers College, New York, USA.

• 2020, Interview by IEEE Soft Robotics podcast.

• 2020, Interview by American’s Test Kitchen Kids podcast.

• 2019, Invited speaker in South by South West (SXSW), Intelligent Future Track ­– "Morphing in the Future", Austin, TX, USA.

• 2019, Invited seminar at Stanford Human Computer Interaction Seminar on "Morphing Matter, a Materialized Interface", hosted by Prof. Michael Bernstein, Stanford, CA, USA.

• 2019, Invited seminar at Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, hosted by Prof. Gregory Abowd. Atlanta, GA, US.

• 2019, Invited talk at Google on “Design is Curious”. San Francisco, CA, USA.

• 2019, Invited Speaker at 3D Printing Symposium, Hanover, NH, USA.

• 2019, Interview by Voice of America.

• 2019, Invited attendee and talk at Summer Institute – "The Future of Fabrication", co-hosted by the School of Computer Science & Engineering at University of Washington and Microsoft Research, Seattle, WA, USA.

• 2018, Invited talk at Techfestival and IKEA Space 8, Copenhagen, Denmark.

• 2018, Invited talk at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.

• 2018, Invited speaker at Fluxible, Waterloo, Canada.

• 2018, Invited speaker at UX Week, San Francisco, CA, USA.

• 2018, Invited seminar at HP Research, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

• 2018, Interview and live demo at the live national radio show by Science Friday and NPR, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

• 2018, Appointed instructor by United Nation Industrial Development Organization.

• 2017, Invited seminar at Cornell University, School of Human Ecology, hosted by Prof. Jintu Fan and Dr. Lihong Lao, Ithaca, NY, USA.

• 2017, Invited seminar at Temple University, Tyler School of Art, hosted by Prof. Andrew John Wit, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

• 2017, Invited seminar at Syracuse University, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, hosted by Prof. Teng Zhang, Syracuse, NY, USA.

• 2017, Invited talk at Meet the Media Guru, Milan, Italy.

• 2017, Invited talk at Wired festival, London, UK.

• 2017, Invited talk at PopTech, Maine, USA.

• 2016, Invited speaker at the Origins of Life Initiative at Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.

• 2016, Invited seminars at Stanford, University of Tokyo, Keio University and Waseda University.

• 2016, Invited speaker at the reThink Food cohosted by Culinary Institute of America and the MIT Media Lab, Napa County, CA, USA.

• 2015, Wired UK fellow and invited speaker in Wired festival in London, UK.

• 2014, Invited talk at Tokyo Designers' Week, Tokyo, Japan.

• 2014, Invited talk at MIT Museum. Cambridge, MA, USA.

• 2013, Invited talk at Aspen Ideas Festival. Aspen, CO, USA.

 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

• 2020, South by South West (SXSW), Austin, Texas, USA (for ElectroDermis w/ students).

• 2020, Commissioned documentary for Ars Electronica’s online show: Morphing Matter Lab in Pandemic.

• 2020, MIT Museum, Boston, MA, USA (for bioLogic w/ Hiroshi Ishii).

• 2018, “Future Humanity – Our Shaped Planet” at the Hyundai Beijing, China (Printed Paper Actuator and Transformative Appetite w/ students).

• 2018, Bozar Museum, Brussels, Belgium (for Printed Paper Actuator w/ students).

• 2018, "Error", Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria (for Printed Paper Actuator, Thermorph and Transformative Appetite w/ students).

• 2017, “Mutations / Créations”, Center Pompidou, Paris, France (for bioLogic w/ Hiroshi Ishii).

• 2016, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (bioLogic, jamSheets and. PneUI w/ Hiroshi Ishii).

• 2016, Industrial Design of China, Hangzhou, China (bioLogic w/ Hiroshi Ishii).

• 2016, China Design, Shenzhen, China (bioLogic w/ Hiroshi Ishii).

• 2016, Design Week, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (bioLogic w/ Hiroshi Ishii).

• 2016, Museum of Fine Art, Fashion Tech Styles, Boston, MA, USA (bioLogic w/ Hiroshi Ishii).

• 2015, MIT Media Lab, 30's Anniversary , Cambridge, MA, USA (Second Skin w/ Hiroshi Ishii).

• 2015, Museum of Fine Art, Fashion4ward, Cambridge, MA, USA (bioLogic w/ Hiroshi Ishii).

• 2010 – 2012, Red Dot Design museum, Essen, Germany.

PATENTS

• Four-based shape-changing food and related methods. International WO 2020/257801 A2, filed June 22, 2020 and issued Dec 24, 2020.

• Self-folding materials and methods, systems and devices for making the same. International WO 2020/257804 A1, filed June 22, 2020 and issued Dec 24, 2020.

• Flour-based shape changing foods, methods, systems and devices. International WO 2020/257803 A2, filed June 22, 2020 and issued Dec 24, 2020.

• Methods and apparatus for hygromorphic shape control. United States US9931829B2, filed October 29, 2015, and issued April 3, 2018.

• Methods and Apparatus for Shape-Changing Food. United States US20190320705A1, filed July 5, 2019, and issued October 24, 2019.

• Methods and apparatus for shape control. United States US10337536B2, filed August 25, 2017, and issued July 2, 2019.

• Methods and apparatus for layer jamming. United States US9664210B2, filed October 16, 2014, and issued May 30, 2017.

• User gesture input to wearable electronic device involving outward-facing sensor of device. United States US20160328023A1, filed July 21, 2016, and issued November 10, 2016.

• GUI Transitions on Wearable Electronic Device. United States US20140143678A1, filed August 30, 2013, and issued May 22, 2014.

• Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface. United States USD763288S1, filed October 7, 2014, and issued August 9, 2016.

• Transition and interaction model for wearable electronic device. European Union EP2733597A2, filed November 19, 2013, and issued May 21, 2014.

SUPPORT

• 2021 Mar 17, Women In Academia with Alpha Chi Omega at CMU

• 2021 Mar 15, Faculty Panelist in CMU Asian Leadership Union

• 2020, 2021, Ars Electronica STARTS Prize International Advisors