Fabricated Interfaces
A workflow for rapidly fabricating custom interactive controls tuned to specific bodies and tasks.
Fabricated Interfaces investigates digital fabrication as a route to bespoke, task-specific input devices designed around individual needs.
How can digital fabrication let designers produce input devices tailored to a particular person, posture or task?
We developed a parametric design system linking body measurements and task requirements to fabricable control geometries.
Laser-cut and 3D-printed controllers were embedded with sensing and evaluated across a range of manual tasks.
A parametric toolkit and design guidelines for fabricating personalised interactive controls.
Karyafe Lab, Department of Design, IIT Kanpur — 2025
For enquiries about this project, contact Karyafe Lab at karyafe@iitk.ac.in.