http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/2008/10/13/chi-2009-programming-reality-workshop-boston/
"Over the past few years, a quiet revolution has been redefining our fundamental computing technologies."
(((Oh really? Tell me more!)))
..."topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Possibilities and needs served by emerging transitive materials
- Biomimetic, biologically-inspired and biological materials and interfaces
- Flexible digital paper, OLED and E-Ink computers
- Electronic textiles
- Interactive spaces and architectural applications for transitive materials
- Advanced actuators and haptics
- Shape-shifting and physically actuated devices
- Physically reconfigurable computers
- Parametric design and fabrication technologies
- Sensors and techniques for multi-touch and full-body interaction
- Effects of materials and form on design and affordances
- Interaction techniques for non-flat and curved display surfaces
- Tangible and embodied interfaces
- Soft mechanics (((has "Joe the Plumber" been informed?)))
- Methodologies for interaction design using transitive materials
- Personalization of shape changing and transitive material interfaces
- End user customization of the massively interactive environment
- Relationship between membrane and structure in design and computer science
- Value and role of craft, collaborative development, and community knowledge
(((I see. Yeah, a few of those "topics" ought to de-realize today's reality pretty effectively.)))
