Sensorial interfaces

  • Authors:
  • Angela Chang;Hiroshi Ishii

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • DIS '06 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Sensorial interfaces are based on augmenting existing physical objects with digital information. We propose sensorial activity theory to relate multi-sensory mappings to the context of device physicality and rituals of use. We share a design process for creating sensorial mappings, relationships between digital information and sensory information. We present and analyze some design projects: musicBottles, LumiTouch and comTouch, which illustrate the idea of sensorial interfaces. By utilizing the physical constraints of an object and creating sensorial mappings these devices offer novel ways for efficiently interacting with digital information. We believe the principal result enhances the user's sensory experience of the object. Finally, we discuss perspectives and limitations of our sensorial interface design process.