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 hand The interactive potential of shape Behavior 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 Horev oren@verohnero.com Talking to The Hand masters program in the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea Dangling String

4. Dynamic structures Shape Memory Material SMA SMP SME SMA SMP

5. Inflatable structures Bubbletecture Expo 70 exhibition in Osaka,1960

6. Inflatable structures Blow-Up Architecture for Throwing Parties Anywhere Pursumg for mobile life style

7. Inflatable structures paraSITE Temporary shelter By Michael Rakowitz’s for the homeless

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

9. Different form of performance

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

11. Additional function? OUTPUT INPUT Shape-changing Process Intriguing behavior? (ACTION) (RECEPTION)

12. Cognitive Psychology Virtual world Experience of a physical dimension Sensory Perception Cognition Smelling Hearing Touch Receptor memory processor Effector Affordance Moving Speaking Texture &Shape… Physical world J.J. Gibson Environment

13. Cognitive Psychology Experience of a physical dimension Interface OUTPUT INPUT Shape-changing Process Virtual world Physical world

14. I am my body Peripheral awareness Our actions taken in the form of movement or our interaction with the physical world are a process of the 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 Brown Noise of the engine. Road Radio Passenger Center of attention Peripheral awareness

15. How the Body Shapes the Mind Tangible 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 the communication 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 work 1. 2. 3. Affordance Habituality Periphery interactions with overlapping inputs describe the interactive qualities of an object, communicate. bring into interactions with virtual environments 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. Body Texture vs. Structure Gesture vs. Posture Transforming overall geometry or occurrences on the surface? Moving organs or shifting an entire body? Animation or still?

19. Exterior Interior Morphing Cube 1.Volume status 2.Activity status 3.Synchronization status volume Breathing Up-proportional

20. Bubble Twist

21. Final Demos The InSync twisting, turning hard drive http://vimeo.com/15529101

22. Tactile Experience 1.Single basic shapes. 2.Compositions of various basic shapes with similar sizes 3.Compositions of various basic shapes with varying sizes

23. 1.People 2.Content 3.Events http://vimeo.com/15529735 The Tacto-phone

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

27. Bodily Experience

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

29. Summery 1. 2. 3. Periphery Affordance Habituality ^ ^ Morphing Cube ^ Tactile Experience ^ Bodily Experience

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

33. ‘Calm technology’ -By Weiser and Seely Bit stream twirling Center of attention Peripheral awareness