Intended Expression for Tangible Products: The Moldable Speaker of Embodied Interaction

• Main Authors: Chien-ta Huang, 黃建達
• Other Authors: Rung-Huei Liang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82phrv

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 設計研究所 === 99 === The study is about “Intended Expression on Tangible Products – The Moldable Speaker of Embodied Interaction”. Regarding to ”intention”, it focuses on the way of embodiment that sues for personal life, goal, and emotion. This paper looks in detail at moldable interfaces. For example, we use expressive materials as a physical presence for people’s embodiment of intended-expression. We will also investigate the design of various shapes, seeing how prominent features can be used in a form that affords users the opportunity to involve the interfaces in their everyday lives. This research prove: that the moldable interface which involves in physical and social things becoming the part of environment is helpful to the embodied interaction; that extracting the shape of design promotes the evidence of objects availed being example of designing for deformable materials; that tangible products of embodied interaction is following the “flow” letting interface to be expressed the status of human activity. All that is practice for embodied interaction and ubiquitous computing. We also suggest: that the moldable interface is valuable by its adjustment and expression for improving interaction within a surrounding context; that good moldable interface is draw of prominent features; that the form of design is composed of multiple elements rather than single one, opened rather than closed, and diversity rather than union; and that the coupling of function has three modes to activate device regarding the moldable speaker. The element of design invited other designers to explore diversely the potential application towards more complex products. Taking these ideas into consideration, this paper will concentrate on Organic User Interfaces (OUIs) as manifestations of physical objects. Being suited to the concept of OUIs, the Moldable Speaker has become a new vision for a tangible product, except for flexible displays.