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Material Meets the City: Exploring Novel and Advanced Materials for the Smart Urban Built Environment

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Eleni Economidou,

Irina Paraschivoiu,

Andreas ButzAuthors Info & Claims

TEI '21: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Article No.: 66, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3442701

Published: 14 February 2021 Publication History

Abstract

The urban realm is currently undergoing a transformation in which cities are being laced with sensors and networks of ever-connected devices. At the same time, more and more novel and advanced materials are finding their way into interaction design and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research, offering us new interaction possibilities. In this half-day online studio, attendees will have the opportunity to exchange and reflect on urban interaction designs for user engagement based on a set of novel, unconventional, or omnipresent materials in urban environments. We will further collect historical, public, and community locations of different social and societal meaning. Participants will be asked to develop hands-on concepts and use cases for the selected locations through a material-centered approach and think about new levels of user-environment engagement to extend and explore the current design space. The formulated concepts and use cases will be recorded in an online collaboration tool with the prospect to publish them as enhances for the new generation of media architecture.

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Markum R(2025)On the Design of Technosacred SpacesProceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction10.1145/3689050.3704954(1-14)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2025
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Hirsch LEconomidou EParaschivoiu IDöring T(2022)Material meets the cityInteractions10.1145/350135829:1(58-63)Online publication date: 6-Jan-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3501358

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TEI '21: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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Markum R(2025)On the Design of Technosacred SpacesProceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction10.1145/3689050.3704954(1-14)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2025
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3689050.3704954
Hirsch LEconomidou EParaschivoiu IDöring T(2022)Material meets the cityInteractions10.1145/350135829:1(58-63)Online publication date: 6-Jan-2022
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