Stranger Screens: Exploring the Application Themes for Interactive Freeform Devices
2022. Marcos Serrano, Andrés Lucero, Pourang Irani & Anne Roudaut
CHI EA '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts.
Abstract
Advanced technologies are increasingly enabling the creation of freeform devices: interactive devices with non-rectangular form-factors. We explore the applications they inspire and how users may interact with such freeform devices. In a week-long design workshop, we invited non-specialist designers to invent freeform devices and reflect on their myriad form factors and the applications they engender. We clustered their concepts into Introspection, Community and Magic Exploration applications, allowing to understand the perspective of non-specialists on freeform devices in real life.