Paper Info
Title
Actueating: Designing, Studying And Exploring Actuating Decorative Artefacts
Abstract
Actuating, dynamic materials offer substantial potential to enhance interior designs but there are currently few examples of how they might be utilised or impact user experiences. As part of a design-led exploration, we have prototyped (Wizard-of-Oz) an actuating, dining table runner (ActuEater1), and then developed a fully-interactive fabric version that both changes shape and colour (ActuEater2). Four in-situ deployments of 'ActuEaters' in different dinner settings and subsequent 'design crits' showed insights into how people perceive, interpret and interact with such slow-technology in interesting (and of-ten unexpected) ways. The results of our 'ActuEating' studies provide evidence for how an actuating artefact can be simultaneously a resource for social engagement and an interactive decorative. In response, we explore design opportunities for situating novel interactive materials in everyday settings, taking the leap into a new generation of interactive spaces, and critically considering new aesthetic possibilities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3196709.3196761
DIS 2018: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2018 DESIGNING INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS CONFERENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Shape-changing Interfaces, Organic User Interfaces, Interioraction, Multi-aesthetics, Colour-changing
Human–computer interaction,Engineering,Social engagement,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
29
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sara Nabil1103.89
Aluna Everitt2122.50
Miriam Sturdee33513.17
Jason Alexander454835.00
Simon Bowen5858.76
Peter Wright61645203.56
David Kirk71949167.38