Bridging Material Science and Interaction Design
20 - 24 January 2020
Venue: Lorentz Center@Snellius
If you are invited or already registered for this workshop, you have received login details by email.The objective of this workshop is to bridge Material Science (encompassing disciplines such as physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering) and Interaction Design (encompassing disciplines, such as computer science, psychology and design). Both communities explore the possibility of developing materials and products, which tightly integrate sensing, actuation and computation, making it possible to e.g. change shape, stiffness, or physical appearance in a fully programmable way. The workshop aims at connecting researchers from these two separate multidisciplinary fields. Although they share some of the overarching goals, they approach the challenges from very different perspectives, and research and education are rarely carried out crossing this divide.
20 - 24 January 2020
Monday 20 January 2020
Theme of the day: Introduction and positioning
Day chair: Isabel Qamar (MIT, United States)
09:00 – 10:00 Arrival ad coffee (receive sample book)
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome by Lorentz Center and Organizers
10:15 – 10:30 Introduction to workshop by Miguel Bruns (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) and Majken Kirkegaard Rasmussen (Aarhus, Denmark)
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12.30 Position talks Part I
Miguel and Majken will take visual notes and participants can collect questions and comments on post-its
11:00 – 11:30 Shape-change
Jason Alexander (Lancaster, United Kingdom)
Nikolaus Correll (Boulder, United States)
Liu Danqing (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
11:30 – 12:00 Haptics
Dirk J. Broer (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Mike Fraser (Bath, United Kingdom)
Anke van Oosterhout (Aarhus, Denmark)
12:00 – 12:30 Physical/virtual
Daniel Saakes (Daejeon, Korea)
Carson Bruns (Boulder, United States)
Andrés Villa Torres (Zurich, Switzerland)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch @Snellius restaurant
14:00 – 15:30 Position talks Part II
14:00 – 14:30 Meta Materials
Corentin Coulais (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Alexandra Ion (Zürich, Switzerland)
Helena Kolken (Delft, Netherlands)
14:30 – 15:00 Auxetic Materials
Marcelo Dias (Aarhus C, Denmark)
Fabrizio Scarpa (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Aluna Everitt (Bristol, United Kingdom)
15:30 – 16:00 Textiles
David Schmelzeisen (Aachen, Germany)
Sophie Zajicek (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Stijn Ossevoort (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:00 Synergies between Material Science and Interaction Design
Majken Kirkegaard Rasmussen (Aarhus, Denmark)
Miguel Bruns (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Isabel Qamar (MIT, United States)
16:00 – 17:30 Presentation of samples (pitching and experiencing), and creating a physical mapping of discipline and research interests based on visual notes and post-it comments and questions.
17:30 – Wine and cheese party
Tuesday 21 January
Theme of the day: Ideation
Day chair Majken Kirkegaard Rasmussen
09:00 – 09:30 Introduction to “speed dating” and warm-up (Miguel Bruns and Majken Kirkegaard Rasmussen)
09:30 – 10:30 Material “speed dating” session part I
The goal of this session is to generate a wide range of ideas by combining two material samples. Every 10 minutes new combinations of materials will be created.
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12.00 Material “speed dating” session part II
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch @Snellius restaurant
14:00 – 15:30 Idea clustering and forming of interdisciplinary groups
The goal of this session is to identify the most interesting ideas resulting from the previous session.
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:30 Ideation Session
Based upon the previously identified ideas groups will be created who will start to prepare their plans for developing their ideas further in the FabLab on the Wednesday.
Wednesday 22 January
Theme of the day: FabLab
Day chair Liu Danqing
08:45 – 09:30 Transportation to FabLab Zoetermeer
09:30 – 12:00 Making activities in groups
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 18:00 Making activities in groups
18:00 – 18:45 Transport to dinner
19:00 – 21:30 Workshop dinner @LAB071
Thursday 23 January
Theme of the day: Presentation and Discussion
Day chair Nikolaus Correll
09:00 – 10:00 Preparing material for presentations
Participants will create (handwritten) posters including keywords and sketches to support the prototypes developed in the FabLab.
10:00 – 11:00 Plenary presentations and experience of results from the FabLab
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 Idea clustering of overall workshop outcomes of the workshop
The goal of this session is to collect all the insights obtained during the past three days and provide potential directions for future research. Participants can discuss and prepare two directions more in depth in the afternoon in smaller groups.
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch @Snellius restaurant
14:00 – 15:00 Group discussion of results: positioning in relation to own work and research agenda Session I
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:30 Group discussion of results: positioning in relation to own work and research agenda Session II
16:30 – 17:30 Plenary discussion on the outcomes regarding envisioned papers and/or research proposals
Friday 24 January
Theme of the day: Research Plans and Education
Day chair Miguel Bruns
09:00 – 09:30 Recap of the ideas for papers and research proposals
09:30 – 10:30 Plenary discussion on bridging the gap in research
- Discuss the essential knowledge, skills or attitudes regarding what Material Scientists have learned from Interaction Designers and vice-versa
- Discuss the type of events, activities that are needed to further bridge the two domains
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 Plenary discussion on bridging the gap in education
- Could interdisciplinary education be a means to bridge the gap and how could it be organized?
12:00 – 12:30 Closing remarks
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
