Expressive surfaces: a designerly approach for computational objects

  • Authors:
  • Heekyoung Jung

  • Affiliations:
  • Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

I propose the concept of expressive surfaces as a research theme to investigate and explore aesthetics of computational objects with its emphasis on forms and materials. In this proposal, I describe some of my preliminary studies to illustrate how the concept has been developed to my research theme. Then exploratory examples of expressive surfaces (the sound-sensitive lamp sculpture and the soft-spiky mouse) are introduced as attempts to specify the theme into a research agenda for computational objects in terms of concept development, prototyping and evaluation.