Designing for performative tangible interaction

A Design Framework for Designing Tangible Interaction for Collaborative Use

This paper describes a framework (under progress) for designing tangible interaction for collaborative use. Four design aspects/themes should be carefully exploited, if one wants to design a tangible interaction system intended for collaborative use: space and spaciality, tangible manipulation, embodied facilitation and representations and their expressiveness.

The emerging roles of performance within HCI and interaction design

As Brenda Laurel noted as far back as 1992, the operation of computers has always been a performative activity (Laurel, 1992). A system’s state changes as a computer runs through a program acting out the tasks specified in the script of a program. With interactive systems, human actors take their place on stage alongside computers, performing activities with and through such systems. The recent...

Interaction as Performance: Performative Strategies in Designing Interactive Experiences

When clapping data speaks to Wii: physical creativity and performative interaction in playground games and songs

In this paper, we explore how exertion interfaces can promote physical creativity and the role that this might play in performative interaction. In particular, we are interested in exploring how to design and develop devices and applications which use physical interaction, or exertion, to promote performative interaction or the witting transitions between observing, participating and performing...

Challenges For Designing Tangible Systems

Since the introduction of tangible systems and tangible interaction a lot of work has been done in this area. The focus for most of these works was on a success of tangible interaction and few papers discuss when tangible systems fail. In this paper, we aim to understand what we can learn from the failures of tangible systems. We discuss the challenges raised during the design of tangible syste...