Crafting the Immaterial Materiality

Getting hold of the immaterial materiality of interactive behaviors
Fatih K.özenc, Miso Kim, John Zimmerman, Stephen Oney, Brad MyersCarnegie Mellon University

Overview
Conversation with Material
Workshops
Design Implications
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Conversation with material

Learning by doing
Developing tacit knowledge by actively engaging in the design activity and materials
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In conceiving of a new idea or refining the details of an existing idea,materials ‘talk back’, revealing new opportunities and challenges for designers

In conceiving of a new idea or refining the details of an existing idea, materials ‘talk back’, revealing new opportunities and challenges for designers

Reflection in+onaction
By thinking about what the person is doing when she is doing it (Schön)
Pausing to think back on what the designer has done to reframe the problem (Schön)

Problem: conceiving of immaterial material
Difficulty of developing tacit knowledge and conversation with material due to the immaterial materiality
Rapid changing nature of the software platforms with the development of new technologies

Problem: refining & communicating
Lacking the competency to effectively implement their ideas in software
Handing off static, annotated, screen designs before they have sufficiently refined the ideas to know this is what they want

Support tools
Sketching
Silk, Denim
DEMAIS
K-Sketch, Sketch-flow
Iteration
Designer’s Outpost, Parameter Spectrum, Design Horizons, Parallel Paths

Goal: Understanding…
The nature of immaterial materiality
How designers have conversation with the immaterial material
How future tools could support conversation with material

Workshops

Approach: participatory design
Participatory design
Workers designing their own tools
Design as conceiving, refining and communication
Conceiving: Workshop I
Refining and Communication: Workshop II

Approach: participatory design
Introduction and warm-up
Design exercise on novel controls
Sharing of selected concepts
Design exercise on tools
Discussion

Workshop I: overview
Focus: Novel controls
Activity
Conceiving of novel controls
Design of tools to support conceiving
ParticipantsInteraction designers

Workshop I: projects
Motive
To have participants to conceive a novel control
Projects
Radio control in a bed
Projected controls inside a shower
Projected controls on a stove

Workshop I: findings
Context
Gestures
Examples

Workshop II: overview
Focus
Novel controls
Activities
Refining a designer’s conceived design
Communicating refined design to a developer
Designing tools for refinement and communication
Participants
Interaction designers
Software developers

Workshop II: projects
Motive
Refinement of novel controls,
not conceiving of new ones
Projects
Airline flight reservation system
Online car-dealer

Workshop II: materials
Interface
Storyboard
Motion Examples
Interaction Examples

Interface
Storyboard
Motion Examples

Workshop II: findings
Roughing out and refining the properties of motion
Keeping and linking examples as inspirations and deriving properties for interactive behaviors
Working with the underlying user scenarios
Supporting multiple versions for iterative cycles & creativity

Discussion

Design Implications
Tools for refining & communication
Motion (capturing and refining)
Scenario-based design
Examples
Storing multiple variation
Transferring visual elements and code
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Design Implications
Tools as Boundary objects
Communicative artifacts supporting the dialogue and consensus building between people coming
from different perspectives (areas of expertise)
Boundary object allowing different stakeholders having an ongoing conversation, making design a co-creative endeavor both in refinement and communication
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Questions
Thanks!
kursat@cmu.edu
www.kursatozenc.com
Acknowledgment
We thank the designers and developers who participated in the workshops.

Questions
Thanks!
kursat@cmu.edu
www.kursatozenc.com
Acknowledgment
This research was supported by the NSF under grant IIS-0757511.

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