Growing traces on objects of daily use: A product design perspective for HCI

DIS 2014 | June 21st-25th | Vancouver, Canada

GROWING TRACES ON OBJECTS OF DAILY USE A product design perspective for HCI

Elisa Giaccardi . Elvin Karana . Holly Robbins . Patrizia D’Olivo Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

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Source: Portraits of My Family by Camilla Catrambone

MATERIAL TRACES in product design

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Gold Wedding Ring by Torafu Architects

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Evolving Narrative by Puma

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Verderame by Odo Fioravanti

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Underfall by Kristine Bjaadal

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Beetle Infested Table by Hooker & Co.

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Front by Droog Design

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Do Scratch by Droog Design

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Do Break by Droog Design

TRACE AS CATEGORY Rosner et al. (2012) “Designing with Traces”

Proc. CHI 2013, pp. 1649-1658.

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Stain Tea Cups by Laura Bethan Wood

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Q: Which role does the aesthetic quality of material traces play in supporting ( or not ) engaging experiences with ordinary objects?

“The bond that arises between people and products will have to concern the concrete object in the here and now, and not only the meanings or symbols it carries or the functions it fulfills.” Verbeek, What Things Do, 2005

Study 1: Aging characteristics of daily life products

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12 participants 130 items

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M24

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T14

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C4

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Plas

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Woo

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Ceram

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Representation of material traces with pictograms

Lighter hues of material family colorscratches

Bend on material surface (metal only)

White annotationpart of the material is lost (e.g. broken, torn, etc.)

Black annotationcontains a trace via another material

Bend in material surface (metal only)

Lighter hues of material family color (scratches)

White annotation (part of the material is lost)

Black annotation (contains residue from another material)

Representation of material traces with pictograms

Study 2: User perception of aged products

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22 participants 3 samples

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Shallow nicking (common) M24 P23 W1 C4 T15

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Deep linear scratching (common) M23 P19 W23 C8 T14

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Material-specific traces M8 P26 W14 C6 T2

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MATURITY

Study 3: Design exploration of deliberate material traces

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Concept design: Growing a patina of deliberate traces

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Computational Part

Drill Bits

Matrix of Coils

Gear Mechanism

Metal Sheet Frame

Wooden Body

Main Axis

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Rich communication with and through objects

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How would people engage with the opportunity to grow traces

on digitally connected objects?

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What form of maturity and which focal practices would deliberate traces

provide digitally connected objects with?

Thank you And thank you to Segourney Muntslag, Mirsaeid Mousavi, Andrea

Mambrini, Ludovica Zengiaro, Pietro Malvezzi and Arianna Antognazza

MakingInteractions a collaboration between the Connected Everyday lab

and the Materials Experience lab at Industrial Design Engineering

Growing traces on objects of daily use: A product design perspective for HCI

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