TY - GEN
T1 - Puffy
T2 - 17th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2023
AU - Xing, Sark Pangrui
AU - Van Dijk, Bart
AU - An, Pengcheng
AU - Bruns, Miguel
AU - Chuang, Yaliang
AU - Wang, Stephen Jia
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors want to appreciate the technical support from Jasper and Chet at the Rapid Prototyping lab (TU Eindhoven), Material Workshop arrangement by Simone G. de Waart, substantial suggestions from the anonymous reviewers, kind advice from Prof Stephan Wensveen and Jeffrey Ho, supplementary video clip by Wei Lai. This project is supported by the UGC Funding Scheme (RHCE & G.73.xx.R006) from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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PY - 2023/2/26
Y1 - 2023/2/26
N2 - A rising number of HCI scholars have begun to use materiality as a starting point for exploring the design's potential and restrictions. Despite the theoretical flourishing, the practical design process and instruction for beginner practitioners are still in scarcity. We leveraged the pictorial format to illustrate our crafting process of Puffy, a bio-inspired artifact that features a cilia-mimetic surface expressing anthropomorphic qualities through shape changes. Our approach consists of three key activities (i.e., analysis, synthesis, and detailing) interlaced recursively throughout the journey. Using this approach, we analyzed different input sources, synthesized peers' critiques and self-reflection, and detailed the designed experience with iterative prototypes. Building on a reflective analysis of our approach, we concluded with a set of practical implications and design recommendations to inform other practitioners to initiate their investigations in interactive materiality.
AB - A rising number of HCI scholars have begun to use materiality as a starting point for exploring the design's potential and restrictions. Despite the theoretical flourishing, the practical design process and instruction for beginner practitioners are still in scarcity. We leveraged the pictorial format to illustrate our crafting process of Puffy, a bio-inspired artifact that features a cilia-mimetic surface expressing anthropomorphic qualities through shape changes. Our approach consists of three key activities (i.e., analysis, synthesis, and detailing) interlaced recursively throughout the journey. Using this approach, we analyzed different input sources, synthesized peers' critiques and self-reflection, and detailed the designed experience with iterative prototypes. Building on a reflective analysis of our approach, we concluded with a set of practical implications and design recommendations to inform other practitioners to initiate their investigations in interactive materiality.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85149301766&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3569009.3572800
DO - 10.1145/3569009.3572800
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85149301766
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - TEI 2023 - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 26 February 2023 through 1 March 2023
ER -