SECTION: Features
How Textiles Open Up Data as a Material in and on the Body
A designerly journey into textiles and HCI leads to thinking about data as a material for a cybernetic future.
By Troy Nachtigall, January 2023
Articles Tagged: Interaction design
Articles & Features
What Makes Wearable Technologies Socially Acceptable?
Novel wearable computing devices challenge our perception of what is socially acceptable. Research in human-computer interaction asks, "What makes a wearable socially acceptable?" and provides insights that may help designers and developers design for social acceptability.
By Marion Koelle, January 2023
COLUMN: INIT
The center and the periphery: beyond Eurocentrism
By Ahmed Ansari, Raghavendra Kandala, June 2016
SECTION: Features
Design Livre: designing locally, cannibalizing globally
Design Livre is a conversation about creative ways of resisting the bad effects of globalization, such as technological dependence. This article tells the story of how this conversation started, where is it going now, and what is the relevance of its underlying topics.
By Frederick M. C. van Amstel, Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto, June 2016
Building a toolkit for fabricating interactive objects
Despite the recent proliferation of easy-to-use personal fabrication devices, designing custom objects that are useful remains challenging. RFID technology can allow designers to easily embed rich and robust interaction in custom creations at low cost.
By Andrew Spielberg, Alanson Sample, Scott E. Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff, James McCann, April 2016
The development of a game playing framework using interface-based programming
By Mark A. Cohen, October 2005