Investigating Materiality as a Frame for Supporting Creative and Organic Relations with Shape-changing Artifacts in Everyday Settings Over Time

The HCI and C&C communities have developed many unique shape-changing artifacts for supporting novel interactions and experiences. However, little research has been initiated to designing for supporting long-term relations with dynamic shape change. Recently, Wiberg has proposed the notion of the materiality of interaction as a new ontology for tangible computing. There is an opportunity to investigate how such a theory can frame creative and organic experiences with designed shape-changing artifacts in everyday settings over time. To do so, I aim to craft three different shape-changing artifacts as resources for supporting deployment studies. Reflecting on design processes and accumulating empirical data may contribute to further explorations on creativity, materiality, and temporality in interaction design and HCI fields.