a seminar lecture: M.Sc. student in Industrial Design
Supervised by Asst. Prof. Yoav Sterman and Asst. Prof. Guy Austern,
Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion
Monday 23.11.26
at 13:30 in room 100, 1st floor, Amado building
Generative AI lets users turn an idea into a visual of an object, yet fabricating it as a multi-part assembly remains an expert task. Increasingly popular laser cutting makes this gap concrete. HCI research on laser-cutting tools lowers the barrier but still requires users to supply or build geometry. Generative 3D and CAD models produce solid shapes, but struggle in producing flat, jointed parts. This talk presents Laserify, a hybrid pipeline where novices produce fabrication plans for laser-cut assemblies. Using multimodal prompts, users generate a draft image of the result, then can direct the design by annotating and sketching on that image. AI interprets the draft image parts and code computes the joints. This process is evaluated by a technical comparison and a two-session user study, which followed absolute novices as they designed their own objects, then assessed and assembled the fabricated results. It reveals how novices steer generative AI and experience authorship over their objects.
Contact information: Ziv Botzer | 052-4663101 | mail: ziv.botzer@campus.technion.ac.il