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Touch style: creativity in tangible experience design

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Jeffrey Bardzell,

Shaowen BardzellAuthors Info & Claims

C&C '13: Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition

Pages 281 - 290

https://doi.org/10.1145/2466627.2466653

Published: 17 June 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Creativity is an important part of any design process. However, as interaction design becomes more focused on experiential elements, new, tangible, materials for interfaces of the number and complexity of creative decisions required to design an interface has increased. This paper takes the concept of style, from art theory, and applies it to the experiential design of tangible interfaces as a means to understand how creativity is constrained, organized, and interpreted in the design and use of these novel interactions.

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