Researchers from ATLAS Institute's听THING, ACME and Unstable Design labs took home "Best Paper" and "Best Pictorial" awards at听the ACM conference on听Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '19), held in San Diego, June 23-28. ATLAS faculty and students also contributed听four听research presentations, including one by undergraduate researcher听闯辞濒颈别听碍濒别蹿别办别谤, an engineering student majoring in Technology, Arts & Media who was previously chosen as a Grace Hopper Research Scholar.
DIS听is an听international and interdisciplinary conference encompassing issues related to the design and deployment of interactive systems, where designers, artists, theorists, psychologists, user experience researchers, systems engineers and many more come together to debate and shape the future of interaction systems research, design听补苍诲 practice.
ATLAS research presented at DIS '19:
- "MorphIO: Entirely Soft Sensing and Actuation Modules for Programming Shape Changes through Tangible Interaction," authored by听Ryo Suzuki and researchers from Keio University and The University of Tokyo in Japan, won a听DIS '19 "Best Paper" award. Suzuki, an ATLAS affiliated PhD student,听presented the听research during the conference's Shape Changes Interfaces track.听MorphIO addresses problems that researchers face when trying to program movements in soft materials:听Instead of transferring compiled code听from a digital screen to objects, MorphIO鈥檚 hardware enables听users to program behaviors using motion-capture data gathered from physical movement and interactions. It also听allows听users to construct various shapes and synthesize multiple recorded motions to achieve complex movements, such as bending, gripping听补苍诲 walking.
- ATLAS PhD students Peter Gyory听补苍诲 Clement Zheng's听驳补尘别听HOT SWAP was showcased during the Provocations and Work-in-Progress session at DIS '19, and Gyory also presented the research during the conference's poster and demo reception.听One of the most original aspects of Zheng and Gyory's game, which received the coveted alt.ctrl.GDC award at this year's听Game Developers Conference in San Francisco,听is the use of a wide range of game controllers which must be switched to perform different functions within the game.听
- Research from "Envisioning Reflective, Relaxing, and Restorative Design with ASMR," a work-in-progress paper authored by听Josephine Klefeker听补苍诲听Laura Devendorf,听was presented by lead author, Klefeker, an undergraduate TAM major and researcher in the Unstable Design Lab, during the Works-in-Progress track of DIS '19. The research听was inspired by Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) media, where gentle repetitive sounds, such as听listening to a whispering voice or the sounds of听pages听turning,听elicit,听for some, relaxing tingling sensations at the back of the skull听that move听down the back of the neck and upper spine. The research covered five research subjects who used a sonic toolkits to make recordings inspired by ASMR media. The work听looks at whether the听aesthetics of ASMR media can inspire the design of technology that provokes reflective thoughts and relaxation.
- 鈥�,鈥� authored by听Clement Zheng,听HyunJoo Oh,听Laura Devendorf, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听won听the "Best Pictorial" award at DIS '19. Lead author, Zheng, an ATLAS PhD student, presented the听research during the DIS '19 Deformable and Novel Materials track. This inquiry into carbon-coated paper and kirigami structures involved听investigating听two variations of the听paper and their electrical, haptic听补苍诲 visual aspects when shaped into 3D听forms through cutting, folding and bending. Three applications that showcase the possibilities of this material for tangible interaction design were proposed. Researchers also used a听pictorial format of working design schematics so听others could explore on their own.
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