Many embedded platforms that support the creation of interactive smart objects have become available over the last years. Arduino, Raspberry Pi, electric imp, mbed, MSP430, and .NET Gadgeteer are examples of hardware platforms with very different ...

This Studio will involve participants creating interactions with physical and digital elements. They will have the opportunity to use a toolkit we developed that combines physical and digital widgets into a unique environment to allow the rapid setup of ...

This studio revolves around the exploration of (tangible and actuated) interactive products and systems by means of physical sketching and prototyping. It is a hands-on studio where cardboard modeling techniques are combined with Arduino controlled ...

The Designing in Skills Studio provides a framework and tools to address the theme of collaboration in a design process, applying the theories of embodiment and skilful coping. Each participant will collaborate with the others in order to explore one of ...

How to create & animate an object of simple, abstract form which movement would confer a behavior? How to give the impression that such an object have a personality allowing to be proactive, with self-motivated behavior, not directly responding to our ...

Robots have a long history as a tangible platform through which designers and artists can explore human and social experiences. From Pierre Jaquet-Doz's Automatons from the Eighteenth Century, to Dunne & Raby's technological dreams of non-...

Skweezees are soft, deformable objects that recognize their shape deformation. Typically, a Skweezee has a fabric 'skin' and is filled with conductive padding. Several fabric electrodes are dispersed over the shape, and a small electronic circuit ...

We present our ongoing work to develop the concept of physical "margin" spaces around software and a new type of human computer interaction. Our novel "Fidget Widgets" seek to engage users' interrelated bodily motions, affective states, and cognitive ...

In this paper, I describe the motivation for and the background necessary to develop and evaluate an early set of design guidelines for creating tangible and embodied interfaces that focus on engaging, augmenting and improving spatial ability. I then ...

Although tangible user interfaces have gained recent popularity in research, their impact on certain types of learning has not been studied extensively; therefore the effects of their use are not fully understood yet. This paper discusses a ...

This paper proposes Reverse Tangible Interaction Design for the design of tangible artifacts by attempting to adopt conventional digital interactions. This includes behavior of pixels on a screen and touch screen interfaces which have no natural ...

In this paper I want to express my ideas of using autonomous behaviour in Tangible User Interfaces to create a compelling and new kind of interaction between humans and computers. I motivate this approach by reviewing related research, which indicates ...

This research explores how to design for the aesthetics of interaction with shape-changing interfaces from a phenomenological point of view.

Using shape-change as both in- and output we want to explore it as a new layer of communication between (systems)...

In this paper, the author presents the first version of a tool for multi-touch interaction prototyping: LemonGrasp. The motivation for designing such a tool derives from current research in the field of aesthetics of interaction, as well as a ...

A promising approach to facilitate the design of intuitive interaction with tangible user interfaces (TUIs) is making use of image-schematic metaphors. Image-schematic metaphors function as population stereotypes that define the relations between ...

In the face of increasing urbanization and lack of contact with nature, it is important to design systems that facilitate a re-connection or at least dialogue around our interaction with living beings. Rafigh, an empathetic living media interface, is ...

We present a system that combines a real piano with computer generated algorithmic musical expressions, which are directly controlled by a conductor's gestures and trigger a real-time visualization.

This project was concerned with the development of physical sculptures from the motion of an Iaido sword. Iaido is a Japanese traditional martial art concerned with moving a sword and performing a cutting motion at the same time. It is practiced to ...

The basic idea behind the Sensitive Rolypoly is to respond to the ambient noise by changing its shape and lighting. It consists of six triangles that can change into a hexagon. The look reminds of an animalistic creature which can curl up and down ...

In this paper we explore how to raise awareness of the invisible wireless communication that surrounds us, in relation to spatial shape-changing interfaces. So far, this area of research has been largely unexplored. In order to explore this, we have ...