TactStyle: Generating Tactile Textures with Generative AI for Digital Fabrication
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Faruqi, Faraz
Perroni-Scharf, Maxine
Walia, Jaskaran
Zhu, Yunyi
Feng, Shuyue
Degraen, Donald
Mueller, Stefanie
Date Issued
April 25, 2025
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ACM|CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Faraz Faruqi, Maxine Perroni-Scharf, Jaskaran Singh Walia, Yunyi Zhu, Shuyue Feng, Donald Degraen, and Stefanie Mueller. 2025. TactStyle: Generating Tactile Textures with Generative AI for Digital Fabrication. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 443, 1–16.
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Abstract
Recent work in Generative AI enables the stylization of 3D models based on image prompts. However, these methods do not incorporate tactile information, leading to designs that lack the expected tactile properties. We present TactStyle, a system that allows creators to stylize 3D models with images while incorporating the expected tactile properties. TactStyle accomplishes this using a modified image-generation model fine-tuned to generate heightfields for given surface textures. By optimizing 3D model surfaces to embody a generated texture, TactStyle creates models that match the desired style and replicate the tactile experience. We utilize a large-scale dataset of textures to train our texture generation model. In a psychophysical experiment, we evaluate the tactile qualities of a set of 3D-printed original textures and TactStyle’s generated textures. Our results show that TactStyle successfully generates a wide range of tactile features from a single image input, enabling a novel approach to haptic design.
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CHI ’25, April 26–May 01, 2025, Yokohama, Japan
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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