ActuEating: Designing, Studying and Exploring Actuating Decorative Artefacts

Sara Nabil; Aluna Everitt; Miriam Amber Sturdee; Jason Mark Alexander; Simon Bowen; Peter Wright; David Kirk

doi:10.1145/3196709.3196761

ActuEating: Designing, Studying and Exploring Actuating Decorative Artefacts

Sara Nabil, Aluna Everitt, Miriam Amber Sturdee, Jason Mark Alexander, Simon Bowen, Peter Wright, David Kirk

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Actuating, dynamic materials offer substantial potential to enhance interior designs but there are currently few examples of how they might be utilised or impact user experiences. As part of a design-led exploration, we have prototyped (Wizard-of-Oz) an actuating, dining table runner (ActuEater1), and then developed a fully-interactive fabric version that both changes shape and colour (ActuEater2). Four in-situ deployments of ‘ActuEaters’ in different dinner settings and subsequent ‘design crits’ showed insights into how people perceive, interpret and interact with such slow-technology in interesting (and often unexpected) ways. The results of our ‘ActuEating’ studies provide evidence for how an actuating artefact can be simultaneously a resource for social engagement and an interactive decorative. In response, we explore design opportunities for situating novel interactive materials in everyday settings, taking the leap into a new generation of interactive spaces, and critically considering new aesthetic possibilities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS '18 Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	327-339
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	9781450351980
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196761
Publication status	Published - 8 Jun 2018

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ActuEating: Designing, Studying and Exploring Actuating Decorative Artefacts. / Nabil, Sara; Everitt, Aluna; Sturdee, Miriam Amber et al.
DIS '18 Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 327-339.

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