Pictorial Unleashed: Into the Folds of Interactive Qualities

In this pictorial, we present two different tangible interaction designs that enable managing of wireless connections between devices in a smart home environment. One design (Interaction Tile) utilizes a centralized approach based on a high level of semantic abstraction. The other design (Nodes) employs a distributed and localized approached building on laws of grouping from Gestalt psychology. These works were previously used for a comparative study to develop insights into the different mental models users developed, while using these designs. In this pictorial, we focus on the interactive qualities of the two designs and we propose a way to invite the reader to actively and physically engage with the pages of this publication. The reader is asked to print the pages of this pictorial and to engage in folding sequences on particular pages in order to actively engage with the different ways of interacting between the two different designs.