Outputs (2)

Crafting Interactive Decoration (2017)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Koleva, B., Quinn, A., Thorn, E.-C., Glover, K., Preston, W., Hazzard, A., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Greenhalgh, C., & Mortier, R. (2017). Crafting Interactive Decoration. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 24(4), 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1145/3058552

We explore the crafting of interactive decoration for everyday artefacts. This involves adorning them with decorative patterns that enhance their beauty while triggering digital interactions when scanned with cameras. These are realised using an exis... Read More about Crafting Interactive Decoration.

Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Preston, W., Benford, S., Thorn, E.-C., Koleva, B., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Mortier, R., Quinn, A., Stell, J., & Worboys, M. (2017, June). Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale. Presented at ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '17)

As locative media and augmented reality spread into the everyday world so it becomes important to create aesthetic visual markers at scale. We explore a designer-centred approach in which skilled designers handcraft seed designs that are automaticall... Read More about Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale.