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dc.contributor.authorDean, Lionel T.
dc.contributor.authorNiedderer, Kristina
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-25T15:04:22Z
dc.date.available2016-10-25T15:04:22Z
dc.date.issued2016-03-01
dc.identifier.citationFlex-it: Exploring emotional expression through elasticity in digital manufacturing 2016, 7 (1):51 Craft Research
dc.identifier.issn20404689
dc.identifier.issn20404697
dc.identifier.doi10.1386/crre.7.1.51_1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/620241
dc.description.abstractThis research investigates the potential of structural flexibility as a functional and affective design element as well as its potential applications. Our research bridges the areas of jewellery design, emotion design and structural development in the Additive Manufacture (AM) of metals. The article offers a theoretical review of the nature of flexible structures and of current deformable AM geometries and their applications. In relation to this, we conducted a series of practical experiments, which explored AM flexible geometries to create emotional expression. Both, existing examples and the outcomes of the experiments were evaluated against the soma-semiotic framework of emotional expression developed by Niedderer. The outcome and contribution of the research is a better understanding of structural geometries of flexibility and their potential uses, as well as of its affective potential.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherIntellect
dc.relation.urlhttp://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=2040-4689&volume=7&issue=1&spage=51
dc.subjectcraft
dc.subjectsilver design
dc.subjectjewellery
dc.subjectCAD
dc.subjectCAM
dc.subjectdigital manufacturing
dc.subjectrapid prototyping
dc.subjectdirect metal laser sintering
dc.subjectflexibility
dc.subjectelasticity
dc.subjectemotion
dc.subjectemotion design
dc.titleFlex-it: Exploring emotional expression through elasticity in digital manufacturing
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.journalCraft Research, volume 7 issue 1 on pages 51 to 77
html.description.abstractThis research investigates the potential of structural flexibility as a functional and affective design element as well as its potential applications. Our research bridges the areas of jewellery design, emotion design and structural development in the Additive Manufacture (AM) of metals. The article offers a theoretical review of the nature of flexible structures and of current deformable AM geometries and their applications. In relation to this, we conducted a series of practical experiments, which explored AM flexible geometries to create emotional expression. Both, existing examples and the outcomes of the experiments were evaluated against the soma-semiotic framework of emotional expression developed by Niedderer. The outcome and contribution of the research is a better understanding of structural geometries of flexibility and their potential uses, as well as of its affective potential.


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