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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: CHI 2009 WORKSHOP

PROGRAMMING REALITY: From Transitive Materials to Organic User Interfaces

Submission Deadline: November 2, 2008
Workshop date: April 4-5, 2009
Full call: http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/Workshops/cfp121.pdf
Submissions and enquiries: [log in to unmask]

Over the past few years, a quiet revolution has been redefining our
fundamental computing technologies. Flexible E-Ink and OLEDs displays,
shape-changing and light-emitting materials, parametric design, e-textiles,
sensor networks, and intelligent interfaces promise to spawn entirely new
user experiences that will redefine our relation with technology. In one
example, future flexible displays will allow us to design devices that are
completely flexible, and that can curve around everyday objects or our
bodies. These and other developments are opening up unprecedented
opportunities for innovation and require us to re-examine and re-evaluate
some of the most basic user interface design principles. 

This workshop invites researchers and practitioners to imagine and debate
this future, as well as prototype next-generation interfaces. We will
explore two converging themes. Transitive Materials will focus on how
emerging materials and computationally-driven behaviors can operate in
unison blurring the boundaries between form and function, human body and
environment, structures and membranes, while supporting the design of
computational systems that are intrinsically capable of interactivity and
personalization. Organic User Interfaces (OUI) will explore future
interactive designs and applications as these materials become commonplace.
The OUI vision is based on an understanding that in the future the physical
shape of display devices will become non-flat, potentially arbitrary and
even fluid or computationally controlled. This allows display devices and
entire environments to take on shapes that are 3D, flexible, dynamic,
modifiable by users or self-actuated.

In the future we will observe increasing integration of computation and
physical environment, to the point where basic material properties will be
computationally controlled. In this brave new world, we will be programming
not only computers or devices, but the fabric of reality itself. We invite
interested participants to join us in discussing, inventing and prototyping
this exciting future.

TOPICS

In addition to the issues already noted, topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:

- Possibilities and needs served by emerging transitive materials
- Biomimetic, biologically-inspired and biological materials and interfaces
- Flexible digital paper, OLED and E-Ink computers
- Electronic textiles
- Interactive spaces and architectural applications for transitive materials
- Advanced actuators and haptics
- Shape-shifting and physically actuated devices
- Physically reconfigurable computers
- Parametric design and fabrication technologies
- Sensors and techniques for multi-touch and full-body interaction
- Effects of materials and form on design and affordances
- Interaction techniques for non-flat and curved display surfaces
- Tangible and embodied interfaces
- Soft mechanics
- Methodologies for interaction design using transitive materials
- Personalization of shape changing and transitive material interfaces
- End-user customization of the massively-interactive environment
- Relationship between membrane and structure in design and computer science
- Value and role of craft, collaborative development, and community
knowledge

WORKSHOP FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

We invite researchers and practitioners from the art, engineering, design
(architecture, fashion, textiles) and scientific disciplines (HCI,
wearables, materials) to submit a 4-page paper in the standard CHI Extended
Abstracts Format describing their current work, new designs, ideas and
positions. A maximum of 20 participants will be selected in terms of
originality and relevance to the workshop themes and based on a review of
their papers by the organizers. The selected papers will be made available
on the workshop website to allow participants to familiarize themselves with
each other's work before the event. Please direct all submissions and
enquiries to [log in to unmask]

ORGANIZERS

Marcelo Coelho - MIT Media Lab
Ivan Poupyrev - Sony CSL Inc.
Sajid Sadi - MIT Media Lab
Roel Vertegaal - Human Media Lab
Joanna Berzowska - XS Labs
Leah Buechley - University of Colorado at Boulder
Pattie Maes - MIT Media Lab
Neri Oxman - MIT Department of Architecture



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