Material light: exploring expressive materials

Authors:
Daniel Saakes
Affiliations:
ID-StudioLab, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Venue:
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Year:
2006

Citing 3
Cited 2

Bricks: laying the foundations for graspable user interfaces

CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Illuminating clay: a 3-D tangible interface for landscape analysis

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Creative connections: user, designer, context, and tools

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

A tangible design tool for sketching materials in products

Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
DisplayObjects: prototyping functional physical interfaces on 3d styrofoam, paper or cardboard models

Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The control of material appearance has become richer than before, giving designers new expressive freedom. Designers need tools and techniques to handle this freedom when designing products. We present a simple but powerful technique to explore material expression in the conceptual phase of the design process. Colours and patterns are projected on foam and paper models to enable designers to quickly visualise and judge materials in context of the products shape.