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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 -