TY - GEN

T1 - ActuEating

T2 - Designing, Studying and Exploring Actuating Decorative Artefacts

AU - Nabil, Sara

AU - Everitt, Aluna

AU - Sturdee, Miriam Amber

AU - Alexander, Jason Mark

AU - Bowen, Simon

AU - Wright, Peter

AU - Kirk, David

PY - 2018/6/8

Y1 - 2018/6/8

N2 - 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 often 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.

AB - 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 often 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.

U2 - 10.1145/3196709.3196761

DO - 10.1145/3196709.3196761

M3 - Conference contribution/Paper

SN - 9781450351980

SP - 327

EP - 339

BT - DIS '18 Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference

PB - ACM

CY - New York

ER -