[ACM Press the Sixth International Conference - Kingston, Ontario, Canada (2012.02.19-2012.02.22)] Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction - TEI '12 - Immaterial materials

✍ Scribed by Belenguer, Jordi Solsona; Lundén, Marcus; Laaksolhati, Jarmo; Sundström, Petra

• Book ID: 125531089
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2012
• Weight: 578 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1450311741
• DOI: 10.1145/2148131.2148177

✦ Synopsis

Designing with digital materials is sometimes challenging due to material properties that are for all practical purposes invisible. Here we present our work on exploring one such material, radio, and how we have worked with making radio a more tangible and accessible design material for multidisciplinary design teams to work with. Starting from an account of a previous project of ours, the LEGA project, we describe a design situation involving radio that exemplifies some of the challenges that working with radio can involve. We thereafter describe how we have used the Inspirational Bits approach to further investigate the peculiarities of radio as an immaterial design material and what possibilities it holds for interactive systems design.