* Special Issue on Tangible Interaction for Design - for AIEDAM is accepting paper until April 18, 2008
This special issue of AIEDAM will be devoted to papers concerned with Tangible Interaction for Design.
Following decades in which design computation was almost exclusively the domain of software, today many investigators are building hybrid systems and tools that, in one way or another, bridge the divide between physical "real world" artifacts and computat ional artifacts. On one hand the rapid rise and popularity of mass-customization, rapid prototyping and manufacturing raises questions about the kinds of software systems and tools that might make these hardware technologies useful in designing. On the ot her hand, advances in microcontroller and communications technologies has led to a wave of embedding computation in physical artifacts and environments - that is, tangible interaction.
The "Tangible Interaction for Design" special issue calls for papers that populate this space of hybrid computational-physical systems, particularly in relation to design. Topics might include (but are not limited to) the following:
- systems, methods, and tools for rapid prototyping and manufacturing in design;
- AI techniques for tangible user interaction in engineering design applications and other design domains;
- computational reasoning about physical and tangible artifacts and productions;
- physical artifacts as external representations and how they coupled to internal representations;
- human centered computing issues for tangible user interactions;
- theories and procedures to analyze or generate tangible interaction for design;
- tools and techniques for tangible design artifacts to support design;
- tangible interaction with design software;
- design methods for tangible interactivity;
- toolkits for tangible interaction design;
