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About Jack Forman : Human-material interaction was a calling I have long been nurturing. It brought me to my bachelor’s Carnegie Mellon University, where I double-majored in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and Biomedical Engineering (BME), to learn more from nature’s demonstrations of what matter could be: programmable, adaptive, and responsive. After cultivating a solid technical foundation, I ventured from studying to making. In third and fourth year, I first-authored a CHI paper on a reversible morphing artificial muscle fiber [1]. I also led the design of a morphing clothing collection with that fiber, and showed it at a fashion show of over 1,000 attendees, and published a co-first authored CHI late-breaking work on hydrogel-textile actuators[2]. After graduating with top honors at Carnegie Mellon, I am now a second-year M.S. student at the MIT Media Lab, in the Tangible Media Group with Professor Hiroshi Ishii. I presented my UIST 2020 full paper on 3D printing fabric via under extrusion and received an honorable mention for Best Demo. My side project, an opacity changing smart material eye project, was awarded an honorable mention in Fast Company’s 2020 Innovation by Design Awards in the Students Category. I am also the co-president of LGBT Grad@MIT, and a diversity representative on the Graduate School Committee. STATEMENT OF ART:In my Ph.D., I am interested in studying programmable matter. Emerging digital fabrication methods allow for the precise control of a material’s properties from the micro to the macroscopic scale. With these approaches, digital information can be embedded into materials as defects, thereby controlling a material’s properties. A question I am planning to address in my research is: how can new programmable material fabrication platforms be developed to empower the creation of human-centered responsive devices? Forman’s vision is to make tangible artifacts embedded seamlessly with responsive behavior, through the development of programmable materials and ways to fabricate them, to make engaging human-material interfaces that utilize the emotional power of touch. Forman sees a future where these adaptive interfaces are ubiquitous, where every material is able to accept and respond to the change that is constantly flowing through us. ORGANIZATION: MIT Media Lab, Tangible Media Group NON-DESIGN OCCUPATION: Materials engineer Cars, mechanics, technicians, engineers EDUCATION: Massachusettes Institute of Technology (2019-Present): M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences Carnegie Mellon University (2015-2019): B.S. in Materials Science & Biomedical Engineering EXPERIENCE: Tangible Media Group, MIT | Cambridge, MA September 2019 - present Experiences Research Assistant Invented fast, inexpensive approach to 3D print fully-fabricated textiles Working on bridging Biological Computing with Human-Computer Interaction Accenture Future Technologies Lab | Somerville, MA June 2020 - August 2020 R&D Researcher Investigating 3D Printing and Fabrication Technologies Morphing Matter Lab, CMU | Pittsburgh, PA August 2017 - August 2019 Undergraduate Research Lead Invented and published novel 2-way shape changing thread actuators Created an untethered soft robotic jellyfish Lead a team of graduate students in a research collaboration with Estée Lauder Estée Lauder Companies | Melville, NY May 2018 – August 2018 Materials Science R&D Intern Tested and analyzed polymer-surfactant compatibility for swelling and stress cracking Improved the accuracy of the stress crack testing by 30 times Developed two goniometer operating procedures for contact and sliding angle analysis Introduced a theoretical framework for predictive compatibility testing United States Steel Corporation | Munhall, PA June 2017 – April 2018 Metallography Intern Developed a setup and procedure for electropolishing steel that allowed for a 20% improvement in retained austenite measurements Programmed excel spreadsheets to analyze a vast array of employee statistics North Atlantic Industries | Bohemia, NY Summer 2016 Test Engineering Intern Analyzed existing circuit designs to determine appropriate test strategy and specified test requirement; worked with senior engineers to learn how to recommend test equipment Collaborated with a software engineering team to develop test programs to verify functional operations of NAI products High Entropy Alloys Group, Carnegie Mellon | Pittsburgh, PA Spring 2016 Research Assistant Assisted a graduate student in making blocks of severalhigh entropy alloys using a miniarc melting system, and creatednanocomposite flakes using a melt spinner Characterized alloys using Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-ray diffraction AWARDS: Honorable Mention Fast Company Innovation By Design Awards 2020 (Student Category: Heliozzz) PRESS APPEARANCES: MIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2020/defextiles-leveraging-3 d-printer-defect-to-create-quasi-textiles-1020) Carnegie Mellon News (https://engineering.cmu.edu/news-events/magazine/ fall-2018/yes-morphing-dress.html) Gizmodo (https://gizmodo.com/a-broken-3d-printer-inspired- this-futuristic-fabric-1845532736) Core77 (https://www.core77.com/posts/102577/The-Underextr uding-Technique-for-3D-Printing-Flexible-Fabrics-U sing-an-Inexpensive-Unmodified-Printer) Fast Company:(https://www.fastcompany.com/90553730/stud ents-innovation-by-design-2020) Hackaday (https://hackaday.com/2020/11/20/3d-printable-clot h-takes-advantage-of-defects/) New Atlas (https://hackaday.com/2020/11/20/3d-printable-clot h-takes-advantage-of-defects/) Architect Magazine (https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/week -in-tech-mit-researchers-turn-3d-printer-defects-i nto-textiles_o) ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS: Forman, J., Dogan, M., Foryseth, H., and Ishii, H. 2020. DefeXtiles: 3D printing Quasi-Woven Fabric via Under-Extrusion, In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’20). ACM, Minneapolis, MN, USA Rivera, M.*, Forman, J.*, Hudson, S., and Yao, L. 2020. Hydrogel-Textile Composites: Actuators for Shape-Changing Interfaces, In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 25-30, 2020, Hawaii, US [*Contributed Equally] Forman, J., Tabb, T., Do, Y., Yeh, M., Galvan, A. and Yao, L. 2019. ModiFiber: Two-way Soft Thread Actuators for Tangible Interaction, In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 04-09, 2019, Glasgow, UK Cheng, T., Li, G., Liang, Y., Zhang, M., Liu, B., Wong, T., Forman, J., Chen, M., Wang, G., Tao, Y. and Li, T. 2019. Untethered Soft Robotic Jellyfish, Smart Mater. Struct.28015019 ACCOLADES: Andrew Carnegie Society Scholar Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honors Society Top 12.5% Alpha Sigma Nu, Materials Engineering Professional Honors Society Mortar Board, National Honors Society Phi Kappa Phi Boeing MSE Scholar 2017 Boeing MSE Scholar 2016 Dean’s List SYMPOSIUMS AND ACADEMIC CONFERENCES:: CHI 2019 CHI 2020 CHI 2021 UIST 2020 COLLECTIONS: Fisher Fine Arts Materials Library (https://library.artstor.org/#/public/29904398) HOBBIES: Spinning Fire Poi WEB SITE: jackaforman.com PORTFOLIO URL: jackaforman.com, https://www.media.mit.edu/people/jackform/overview / REGISTRATION DATE: 2020-09-02 00:53:13 COUNTRY/REGION: United States of America ACCOUNT TYPE: Academic |
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