Interactive Design | Hybrid Workshop | English | Europe-Mideast-Africa
Description:
“Soft Touch” workshop will explore the creation of soft interfaces for human computing interaction. The development of IoT technologies is in need of better tangible interfaces, where the experience of interaction can include the whole body and senses. Textiles in this field present themselves as exciting materials with special haptic characteristics that can trigger movements, gestures, and feelings that affect the way humans approach digital interfaces. Frame on Material Driven Design methodologies, this workshop invites the students to explore the physical world of soft materials, textures, and shapes. They will be able to create their own soft interfaces with a focus on haptics, aiming to communicate in an interactive way with a digital data visualization code in Processing. The teaching process will include theoretical contents regarding smart textiles, haptics, and material-driven design for HCI, as well as technical knowledge about basic circuits and Processing. The design process will start with personal questions on how these new interfaces could enable new ways of interaction in specific contexts, for example, a visually impaired visitor to a museum. The outcomes will be both physical and digital and expect to create discussion on how we are relating to digital interfaces and how there is much to explore yet.
Key Words:
Haptics,Soft,Data,Interface
Required Skills:
Arduino basic coding, Basic Processing
Required Software:
Processing, Arduino IDE
Required Hardware:
Arduino and basic prototyping components (light sensors, leds, etc), conductive yarn, cables, foil, textile/soft materials.
Maximum number of participating students:
10
Schedule:
Jun 28 - Jul 1
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Day 1 / Jun 28
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Day 2 / Jun 29
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Day 3 / Jun 30
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Day 4 / Jul 1
Instructors:
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sofia guridi Aalto University,Research AssistantChilean designer and researcher, focus on the intersection of textiles, interaction design, electronics, crafts, and material exploration. Her work goes from experimental discoveries, educational projects, and applied research for product development. Her main drive is the exciting new possibilities of communication and expression enable by soft interfaces and the connection with the human body. She is currently doing her Master of Arts in Contemporary Design at Aalto University and working as Research Assistant at the School of Electrical Engineering and School of Arts.