1 Day Workshop for Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ’24)
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1-5 July 2024
Towards Robot and Technologies that Touch Well – Shaping an Experience-driven Design Paradigm
Touch plays a vital role in social communication, bonding, and maintaining physical and emotional well-being. Advances in robotics alongside novel haptic technologies provide opportunities for tactile technology design that supports remote and robotic care, physical and mental well-being, social bonding, and novel sensory experiences. However, the key to unlocking these potentials depends on whether a technology can ‘touch well’. Current haptic devices are still very limited in the range and nuances of sensations that they can deliver, and there is still the bottleneck of developing richer and finer-grained sensations that encompass those of human social touch. Currently, we have a limited understanding of the design parameters associated with the quality and nuance of touch, and to develop knowledge in this area requires cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Given these challenges, we propose the formulation of a novel experience-driven design paradigm that brings together parameters from the expressive, affective, experiential and soma-aesthetic qualities of touch, as well as technical realizations and ethical dimensions.
This one-day workshop invites participants from diverse disciplinary fields or subfields to offer interventions in this area. After short papers and demonstrations, substantive time is devoted to generative discussions based around concepts, technologies, and emerging themes around touch and design. Contributions are welcome from those whose research interests and practices intersect with touch or haptics in some way, including design, material and bodily practices, social sciences, healthcare, and artistic practices.
Participation in our workshop is open to all. However to stimulate rigorous synergies, it is highly encouraged to submit a short position paper, pictorial or demonstration paper (1~4 pages) in PDF format involves one of the three aspects listed below. In the submission link we also ask for a short bio of the attending author(s) of the paper.
· Reflections on principles, assumptions, and conceptual tools that lie behind an experience-centered approach to touch design
· Demonstrations of examples, tools, methods and process for mapping design parameters to experiential qualities of touch
· Illustrate challenges that arise within specific contexts where haptic or robotic technologies must provide particular experiential qualities to the user or operator
Please submit via this link. For questions or technical issues please contact: cyzheng@kth.se.
Review
Each submission will be reviewed by two of the committee members. Accepted submissions will be published on the workshop website prior to the workshop date.
Important dates:
Deadline for submission:
early submission (before early bird DIS registration) deadline: 27th May
second submission dealine: 9th June
We still have spaces for the workshop, interested participants please contact cyzheng@kth.se
Organizing committee:
Caroline Y. Zheng, KTH Royal Institute of Technology,cyzheng@kth.se
Georgios Andrikopoulos, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, geoand@kth.se
Mark Paterson, University of Pittsburgh, paterson@pitt.edu
Nadia Berthouze, University College London, nadia.berthouze@ucl.ac.uk
Minna Nygren, University College London,minna.nygren@ucl.ac.uk
Yoav Luft, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, luft@kth.se
Madeline Balaam, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, balaam@kth.se