Sketching in software and hardware Bluetooth as a design material

2011. Petra Sundström, Alex Taylor & Kenton O'Hara
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services.

Abstract

In any design process, a medium's properties need to be considered. This is generally well established, yet still within interactive systems design, the properties of a technological medium are often glossed over. That is, technologies are often black-boxed without much thought given to how their distinctive material properties open up the design space. In this paper, we experiment with a technology to see what might be gained from intentionally and systematically investigating its properties. Specifically, we look upon Bluetooth from the perspective of being a design material and examine how its properties from that perspective can be used to shape design thinking. Using four example cases or "sketches", we show that Bluetooth's properties, often seen as constraints, can provide useful building blocks for designing interactive systems.

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Citation

Sundström, P., Taylor, A. S., & O'Hara, K. (2011). Sketching in software and hardware bluetooth as a design material. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (pp. 405–414). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/2037373.2037434, doi:10.1145/2037373.2037434

BibTeX

@inproceedings{10.1145/2037373.2037434,
author = {Sundstr\"{o}m, Petra and Taylor, Alex S. and O'Hara, Kenton},
title = {Sketching in software and hardware Bluetooth as a design material},
year = {2011},
isbn = {9781450305419},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2037373.2037434},
doi = {10.1145/2037373.2037434},
abstract = {In any design process, a medium's properties need to be considered. This is generally well established, yet still within interactive systems design, the properties of a technological medium are often glossed over. That is, technologies are often black-boxed without much thought given to how their distinctive material properties open up the design space. In this paper, we experiment with a technology to see what might be gained from intentionally and systematically investigating its properties. Specifically, we look upon Bluetooth from the perspective of being a design material and examine how its properties from that perspective can be used to shape design thinking. Using four example cases or "sketches", we show that Bluetooth's properties, often seen as constraints, can provide useful building blocks for designing interactive systems.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services},
pages = {405–414},
numpages = {10},
keywords = {Bluetooth, design, design materials, inspirational bits, material properties, the digital material},
location = {Stockholm, Sweden},
series = {MobileHCI '11}
}