Puffy: A Step-by-step Guide to Craft Bio-inspired Artifacts with Interactive Materiality

Sark Pangrui Xing; Bart Van Dijk; Pengcheng An; Miguel Bruns; Yaliang Chuang; Stephen Jia Wang

doi:10.1145/3569009.3572800

Puffy: A Step-by-step Guide to Craft Bio-inspired Artifacts with Interactive Materiality

Sark Pangrui Xing, Bart Van Dijk, Pengcheng An, Miguel Bruns, Yaliang Chuang, Stephen Jia Wang

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	TEI 2023 - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450399777
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572800
Publication status	Published - 26 Feb 2023
Event	17th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2023 - Warsaw, Poland Duration: 26 Feb 2023 → 1 Mar 2023

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference	17th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2023
Country/Territory	Poland
City	Warsaw
Period	26/02/23 → 1/03/23

Keywords

Analysis/synthesis;
Design recommendations
Design-process
Input sources
Mimetics
Pictorial format
Self reflection
Shape change
Synthesised

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

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Xing, S. P., Van Dijk, B., An, P., Bruns, M., Chuang, Y., & Wang, S. J. (2023). Puffy: A Step-by-step Guide to Craft Bio-inspired Artifacts with Interactive Materiality. In TEI 2023 - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Article 29 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572800

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TEI 2023 - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. 29 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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