Materials, use and contaminated interaction

MEDICAL USE OF CERAMIC MATERIALS

The release of lindane from contaminated building materials

The release of the organochlorine pesticide lindane (γ-hexachlorocyclohexane) from several types of contaminated building materials was studied to assess inhalation hazard and decontamination requirements in response to accidental and/or intentional spills. The materials included glass, polypropylene carpet, latex-painted drywall, ceramic tiles, vinyl floor tiles, and gypsum ceiling tiles. For ...

Computational Compositions: Aesthetics, Materials, and Interaction Design

As computation progressively takes place outside of the box, design increasingly occurs at the boundary between the digital and physical. Or, as Hiroshi Ishii explains: “At another seashore between the land of atoms and the sea of bits, we are now facing the challenge of reconciling our dual citizenships in the physical and digital worlds” (Ishii, 2008). Reconciling a dual citizenship, however,...

Teaching Interaction Design: Matters, Materials and Means

The designer works with people, with materials, with products. Designers are seen as people concerned with form, function and surface. But how often is the designer associated with technology? Still programming can be just as a creative activity as drawing. Deriving from experiences from the discipline of Interaction Design, we advocate a wider view on what a designer is and does by describing ...

Casimir Interaction between Absorbing and Meta Materials

The Casimir force is one of the most accessible experimental consequences of vacuum fluctuations in the macroscopic world. It is the most significant force between neutral, non-magnetic objects at distances on the micrometer scale and below. For many experiments searching for novel short-range forces predicted by unification models, theoretical calculations of the Casimir force are crucial and ...