This document discusses how shape-changing interfaces can enhance interactions with virtual environments by bringing physical qualities that are missing from typical virtual experiences. It proposes three concepts for shape-changing interfaces: 1) Affordance, using an object's shape to indicate its purpose; 2) Habituality, allowing users to develop familiar body movements when interacting; and 3) Periphery, creating awareness of one's surroundings through subtle changes. Examples are given like the Morphing Cube and Tactile Experience prototypes, which aim to incorporate these concepts through their shape-shifting abilities. The goal is to develop "calm technologies" that enhance virtual experiences with physical sensations and movements normally associated with real-world interactions.

1. HAPPY TEACHER’S DAY

2. Talking to the handThe interactive potential of shapeBehavior in objects and tangible interface

3. 1.What is absent from the experience of the virtual in comparison with that of the physical?2.Can Shape-Changing bring to interactions with the virtual some of those missing qualities.?Oren Horevoren@verohnero.comTalking to The Handmasters program in the Interaction Design Institute IvreaDangling String

4. Dynamic structuresShape Memory MaterialSMA SMP SMESMASMP

5. Inflatable structuresBubbletectureExpo 70 exhibition in Osaka,1960

6. Inflatable structuresBlow-Up Architecture for Throwing Parties AnywherePursumg for mobile life style

7. Inflatable structuresparaSITETemporary shelter By Michael Rakowitz’s for the homeless

8. Inflatable structuresIs it fashion or is it furniture?By designer Hussein Chalayan

9. Different form ofperformance

10. Inflatable structuresAbu Nafcha(Puffer fish) & Facial expressionA form of communication rather then an optimization of performance. A nature language….

11. Additional function?OUTPUTINPUTShape-changing ProcessIntriguing behavior?(ACTION)(RECEPTION)

12. Cognitive PsychologyVirtual worldExperience of a physical dimension Sensory Perception CognitionSmellingHearingTouchReceptormemoryprocessorEffectorAffordanceMovingSpeakingTexture &Shape…Physical worldJ.J. GibsonEnvironment

13. Cognitive PsychologyExperience of a physical dimension InterfaceOUTPUTINPUTShape-changing ProcessVirtual worldPhysical world

14. I am my bodyPeripheral awarenessOur actions taken in the form of movement or ourinteraction with the physical world are a process ofthe body as a whole ‘familiarizing’ with the environment.The work on peripheral awareness in the context of technology while in Xerox PARC-By Maurice Merleau-Ponty -By Mark Weiser &John Seely BrownNoise of the engine.RoadRadioPassengerCenter of attentionPeripheral awareness

15. How the Body Shapes the MindTangible Knowledge‘Haptic Visuality : Touching with the Eyes’Gesture is not only physicallyto the focus of communication(someone or something) in the form of hand movements,but also interactively iterate the movements as part of thecommunication and use them to support our thinking. In the physical environment the way things look corresponds with what we expect to feel when we touch them.-ShaunGallagher

16. Frame work1.2.3.AffordanceHabitualityPeripheryinteractions with overlappinginputsdescribe the interactive qualities of an object,communicate.bring into interactions with virtualenvironments and digital devices a peripheral dimension,to produce a ‘natural’ experience.

18. What acts better as the agent of communication?1.2.3.Feature vs. BodyTexture vs. StructureGesture vs. PostureTransforming overall geometry or occurrences on the surface?Moving organs or shifting an entire body?Animation or still?

19. ExteriorInteriorMorphing Cube1.Volume status2.Activity status3.Synchronization statusvolumeBreathingUp-proportional

20. BubbleTwist

21. Final DemosThe InSync twisting, turning hard drivehttp://vimeo.com/15529101

22. Tactile Experience1.Single basic shapes.2.Compositions of various basic shapes with similar sizes3.Compositions of various basic shapes with varying sizes

23. 1.People 2.Content3.Eventshttp://vimeo.com/15529735The Tacto-phone

24. InfoTerrain web interfaceThe exchange between the user and the interface would enhance the user ‘habituality’ of with the virtual environment

27. Bodily Experience

28. http://vimeo.com/15530182Morphing mouse

29. Summery1.2.3.PeripheryAffordanceHabituality^^Morphing Cube^Tactile Experience^Bodily Experience

31. 8 Summerythree external ideas,affordance, habituality and ‘the periphery’,

33. ‘Calm technology’-By Weiser and SeelyBit streamtwirlingCenter of attentionPeripheral awareness