The pillow: artist-designers in the digital age

  • Authors:
  • Anthony Dunne;William W. Gaver

  • Affiliations:
  • Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London, UK;Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • CHI EA '97 CHI '97 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

The Pillow is a treated LCD screen which shows changing patterns in response to ambient electromagnetic radiation, challenging viewers to consider our constant invasion by electronic information. It is proposed as a product for mass-production, one that people would purchase for home use. In this paper, we describe how this admittedly impractical value fiction illustrates some of the ways that designers can pursue research.