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1st WORKSHOP on SMART MATERIAL INTERFACES:
"A Material step to the future"
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Will be held during 2012 International Conference on Multimodal
Interaction (ICMI 2012: http://www.acm.org/icmi/2012/)
October 26th, 2012
Santa Monica, California, USA
http://smartmaterialinterfaces.wordpress.com
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1. CALL FOR PAPERS
2. ABOUT SMART MATERIALS INTERFACES
3. SMART MATERIAL INTERFACES ORGANIZERS
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Goal:
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The goal of this workshop is to draw attention to the emerging field of
smart material interfaces. This field takes advantage of the latest
generation of engineered materials that has a special property defined
"smart". Smart materials are capable of changing their physical
properties, such as shape, size and color, and can be controlled by
using certain stimuli (light, potential difference, temperature and so
on). The workshop aims at stimulating research and development in
interfaces that make use of these smart materials, and it will provide
examples of state-of-the-art design of smart material interfaces, using
different modalities of interaction.
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Topic Keywords:
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Smart material interface, Reality-based interface, Tangible interface.
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Topics of interest:
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We invite original contributions in a variety of areas related to
interaction design and development of interfaces that makes use of
SMART MATERIALS. Main topic of interest is the application of smart
materials in designing and building interfaces that communicate
information to the user - or allow the user to manipulate information -
using different modalities provided by the material's properties.
- Reality-based interfaces
- Tangible Interfaces
- Programmable matter
- Electronic textiles, computational textiles, smart textiles
- Robotics
- Relevant developments in materials science, mechanical engineering,
chemistry, biological engineering, nanotechnology, electrical engineering,
textile engineering, and other fields, coupled with thoughtful speculation
about applications
- ...
We strongly encourage submissions with related demo.
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Important Dates:
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Workshop papers submission due: July 4th, 2012
Author notifications: August 15th, 2012
Workshop camera-ready paper due: Sept 15th, 2012
Workshop: Oct 26th, 2012
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Submissions:
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The workshop solicits original and unpublished papers concerning Smart
Material Interfaces. Authors should submit papers not exceeding 6 pages
in total.
Submissions must be sent in PDF using the ACM format (as indicated on
the main conference page and here
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html)
to the address:
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For up-to-date details on submissions please refer to the official
Workshop site:
http://smartmaterialinterfaces.wordpress.com/submissions
Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. All the workshop
papers will be included in a USB stick with all the other proceedings
of the conference. They will be also published on ACM Digital Library
with associated ISBN.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Please visit the workshop website.
http://smartmaterialinterfaces.wordpress.com
And the conference site:
http://www.acm.org/icmi/2012
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ABOUT SMART MATERIAL INTERFACES
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With the use of smart materials, SMI attempts to overcome the
limitation of traditional and tangible interfaces. SMI focuses on
changing the physical reality around the user as the output of
interaction and/or computation as well as being used as input device.
SMI promotes a tighter coupling between the information displayed and
the display itself by using the tangible interface as the control and
display at the same time - embedding the information directly inside
the physical object. It uses the physicality of the object as a way to
deliver information.
Utilizing smart materials' properties, SMI can support cohesive
interaction by maintaining both channels (input and output) on the same
object of interaction. The interaction constructed in this way will
grant the user a continuous perception of the object and of the output.
For more information refer to the site:
http://smartmaterialinterfaces.wordpress.com/about/
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SMART MATERIAL INTERFACES ORGANIZERS
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Organizers:
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Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Human Media Interaction group,
the Netherlands, a.nijholt [ AT ] utwente . nl
Leonardo Giusti, MIT - Mobile Experience Lab Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA, lgiusti [ AT ] mit . edu
Andrea Minuto, University of Twente, Human Media Interaction group,
the Netherlands, a.minuto [AT] utwente . nl
Patrizia Marti, University of Siena, Italy, marti [ AT ] unisi . it
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Program committee members:
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Ivan Poupyrev, Walt Disney Corporation, Pittsburgh, USA
Federico Casalegno, MIT Mobile Experience Lab Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dhaval Vyas, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Wim Poelman, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Sachiko Kodama, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo Japan
Roel Vertegaal, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Orkan Telhan,Emerging Design Practices University of Pennsylvania, School of Design
Akira Wakita, Keio University, SFC. Fujisawa, Kanagawa, JAPAN
Stephan Wensveen, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Ambra Trotto, Interactive Institute of Umeå University, Sweden
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We are looking forward to welcoming you in Santa Monica in October 2012!
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For contacts and other information:
http://smartmaterialinterfaces.wordpress.com/
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