Knit Graphs, Knit Programming, KnitCAD: Building the Digital Infrastructure to go from Yarn to Meta-Materials
Visiting speaker
Megan Hofmann
Assistant Professor; Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Department of Mechanical Engineering in College of Engineering
Past Talk
Hybrid
Friday
Dec 6, 2024
Watch video
2:00 pm
EST
Virtual
177 Huntington Ave.
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11th floor
Devon House
58 St Katharine's Way
London E1W 1LP, UK
58 St Katharine's Way
London E1W 1LP, UK
In this talk, I will introduce you to the complex world of automatic machine knitting. We will explore the under-utilized capabilities of industry knitting machines in factories worldwide that can produce reduced-waste garments, complex e-textiles, and innovative functional fabrics. We will then discuss why these capabilities rarely make it into the textiles that surround us in our daily lives—-it's a software problem. We will then explore our recent advances in the digital infrastructure of machine knitting: the development of knit graph data structures that model these complex textile structures; a novel programming language that makes introducing computational complexity into knitted structures trivial; and our emerging work on the next generation of computer-aided design (CAD) software for machine knitting.
About the speaker
About the speaker
Megan Hofmann is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, where she directs the Accessible Creative Technologies (ACT) Lab.
Megan is a leading accessibility and fabrication researcher. Her work on the emerging area of Medical Making, the application of digital fabrication in healthcare, has won multiple best-paper awards at ACM-CHI and Assets and the 2022 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation award. Additionally, she is a leader in the burgeoning field of Automatic Machine Knitting. Her work is funded with the support of the National Science Foundation.
She received her PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in 2022.
Megan Hofmann is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, where she directs the Accessible Creative Technologies (ACT) Lab.
Megan is a leading accessibility and fabrication researcher. Her work on the emerging area of Medical Making, the application of digital fabrication in healthcare, has won multiple best-paper awards at ACM-CHI and Assets and the 2022 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation award. Additionally, she is a leader in the burgeoning field of Automatic Machine Knitting. Her work is funded with the support of the National Science Foundation.
She received her PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in 2022.
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