Intelligent Design System for Innovation (AiLoupe)

The Sensory Materials Library (SML) is developing an inclusive and holistic approach towards making the sensory properties of materials accessible within a materials library. The SML and an embodied knowledge design input tool, AiLoupe, enable human intervention and creativity, and so permit a responsive manufacturing process. The project is aimed at harnessing implicit, embodied knowledge to enable distributed and democratic design. Through image-based material classification, AiLoupe presents sensory properties to designers by recalling materials in the built database.