@inproceedings{e46aa14a18534890828b57c1d08cc2da,
title = "ActuEating: Designing, studying and exploring actuating decorative artefacts",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Colour-changing, Interioraction, Multi-aesthetics, Organic user interfaces, Shape-changing interfaces",
author = "Sara Nabil and Aluna Everitt and Miriam Sturdee and Jason Alexander and Simon Bowen and Peter Wright and David Kirk",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 ACM.; 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2018 ; Conference date: 09-06-2018 Through 13-06-2018",
year = "2018",
month = jun,
day = "8",
doi = "10.1145/3196709.3196761",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781450351980",
series = "DIS 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference",
publisher = "ACM",
pages = "327--340",
booktitle = "DIS 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference",
address = "United States",
}