COVER STORY
• Figure 4: “Re-routed Radio”
projects by industrial design
students (a) Nadeem Haidary,
(b) Josh Finkle, and (c) Gavin
Stewart. These music players
were designed to establish new
forms of interaction using standard electronics combined with
non-traditional materials and
expressive physical forms.
B
A
C
• Figure 5: The Hit Me interactive lighting device responds
to touch with an LED display. It
affords various interactions with
the hand. Designed by Carnegie
Mellon students Henry Julier,
Justin Rheinfrank, Amanda Ip,
and Michael Cruz-Restrepo;
directed by Kees Overbeeke
( TU/e). Image source: www.hen-ryjulier.com
• Figure 6. Interactive designs with
unusual effectors by Greg Saul
(Carnegie Mellon and Victoria
University of Wellington): Left:
family of paper robots, folded
paper boxes actuated with nitinol
shape-memory alloy muscles.
The simple devices can be
programmed to respond to
light, sound, or online chat; their
motions are alternately graceful,
silly, and playful. Right: Paper
lamp colored with thermochro-mic ink changes appearance as
its bulb heats its shell.
January + February 2010
