Paper Info
Title
PV-Tiles: Towards Closely-Coupled Photovoltaic and Digital Materials for Useful, Beautiful and Sustainable Interactive Surfaces
Abstract
The interactive, digital future with its seductive vision of Internet-of-Things connected sensors, actuators and displays comes at a high cost in terms of both energy demands and the clutter it brings to the physical world. But what if such devices were made of materials that enabled them to self-power their interactive features? And, what if those materials were directly used to build aesthetically pleasing environments and objects that met practical physical needs as well as digital ones? In this paper we introduce PV-Tiles ? a novel material that closely couples photovoltaic energy harvesting and light sensing materials with digital interface components. We consider potential contexts, use-cases and light gestures surfaced through co-creation workshops; and, present initial technological designs and prototypes. The work opens a new set of opportunities and collaborations between HCI and material science, stimulating technical and design pointers to accommodate and exploit the material's properties.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3313831.3376368
CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Honolulu HI USA April, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-6708-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yogesh K. Meena1162.92
Krishna Seunarine200.68
Deepak Ranjan Sahoo3387.84
Simon Robinson414018.86
Jennifer Pearson513620.83
Chi Zhang600.68
Matt Carnie701.01
Adam Pockett800.68
Andrew Prescott900.34
Suzanne K. Thomas1000.34
Harrison Ka Hin Lee1100.34
Matt Jones121509146.72