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High Tech/High
Touch: digital and
analog design tools |
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Workshop aim: The workshop will
address the following questions: - Where in
the design process can we best use tactile manipulation and where is it essential
to involve digital development tools? - How can we
maximize design perceptions and insights through media? - What are
the most promising physical/digital hybrids? We need to explore what happens in specific
combinations of design tools, approaches, and intentions to find where ideas
flow effectively and why.
Examining physical / digital hybrids can stimulate discussion on the
following issues: Our bodies & our designs: If we know sketching right-handed or left-handed makes
it easier to draw strokes of specific orientation, then how do other
physiological aspects shape what designers create? What interfaces for designing can help us engage our
bodies' capabilities more fully without causing repetitive stress injuries? Material resistance: While virtually testing material options can give
immediate visual information, characteristics of grain, workability and
forming techniques radically affect viability in ways that are timely to
consider in the computer. Past and future: As we move to new media, we carry mental
constructs from our previous education.
We need to understand where studying the cognitive processes of
"traditional" tools can be useful and where we need to reconsider
old paradigms. Re-envisioning
the act of designing can help us break through the typical limitations of
computer interfaces. The result
of the workshop should not only be analytical concepts about existing tools
but also postulations for ideal interfaces and interactions during the
different phases of the design process. |
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Workshop format:
The organizers will introduce the major ideas for the workshop, then each of
the participants will give a short presentation, with the remainder of the time
used for discussion.
Submission information:
Contributions may be submitted in the form of brief position papers or extended
abstracts ~1000 words long, images and references should be included. These papers will be assessed by the
program committee for inclusion in the workshop. Submissions that include relevant research, design work or
teaching from direct experience will be favored over reviews of others’ work.
Please submit the
position paper or extended abstract to the workshop chairs (nywc@uoregon.edu, ellendo@gatech.edu, kieferle@fab.fh-wiesbaden.de) as
a PDF file. The conference paper
abstract format is available as PDF
and RTF
files.