Stranger Screens: Exploring the Application Themes for Interactive Freeform Devices

Abstract

Advanced technologies are increasingly enabling the creation of freeform devices: interactive devices with non-rectangular form-factors. We explore the applications they inspire and how users may interact with such freeform devices. In a week-long design workshop, we invited non-specialist designers to invent freeform devices and reflect on their myriad form factors and the applications they engender. We clustered their concepts into Introspection, Community and Magic Exploration applications, allowing to understand the perspective of non-specialists on freeform devices in real life.

Publisher Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519707

Citation

Marcos Serrano, Andrés Lucero, Pourang Irani, and Anne Roudaut. 2022. Stranger Screens: Exploring the Application Themes for Interactive Freeform Devices. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 447, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519707

Bibtext Entry

@inproceedings{10.1145/3491101.3519707,
author = {Serrano, Marcos and Lucero, Andr\'{e}s and Irani, Pourang and Roudaut, Anne},
title = {Stranger Screens: Exploring the Application Themes for Interactive Freeform Devices},
year = {2022},
isbn = {9781450391566},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519707},
doi = {10.1145/3491101.3519707},
abstract = {Advanced technologies are increasingly enabling the creation of freeform devices: interactive devices with non-rectangular form-factors. We explore the applications they inspire and how users may interact with such freeform devices. In a week-long design workshop, we invited non-specialist designers to invent freeform devices and reflect on their myriad form factors and the applications they engender. We clustered their concepts into Introspection, Community and Magic Exploration applications, allowing to understand the perspective of non-specialists on freeform devices in real life.},
booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
articleno = {447},
numpages = {5},
keywords = {Freeform interfaces, design futuring},
location = {New Orleans, LA, USA},
series = {CHI EA '22}
}