Ephemerality as a Design Driver:: Evanescent Screen Enabled by the Arctic Weather Conditions

Ismo Herman Alakärppä; Elisa Susanna Jaakkola

Ephemerality as a Design Driver: Evanescent Screen Enabled by the Arctic Weather Conditions

Ismo Herman Alakärppä, Elisa Susanna Jaakkola

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Abstract

This paper contributes to the discussion on weather-based phenomena as an affordance for creating user interface elements. The transient characteristics of nature concretely represent ephemerality and provide novel metaphors for interaction design. We have studied arctic weather conditions as a new possibility in the context of ephemeral user interfaces and evanescent information presentation. In this article we present our work in progress dealing with an evanescent screen concept referred to as BreathScreen. BreathScreen is an ephemeral surface for projections enabled by breath clouds produced by human beings in arctic weather conditions. Our work entails preliminary observations from experiments with BreathScreen and introduces possibilities for the presentation of personal information. It also and brings out pragmatic challenges encountered in the implementation of BreathScreen.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	ACM
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-4082-3
Publication status	Published - May 2016
MoEC publication type	A3 Part of a book or another research book
Event	ACM Conference for Human-Computer Interaction: CHI4GOOD - San Jose, United States Duration: 7 May 2016 → 12 May 2016 https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/

Conference

Conference	ACM Conference for Human-Computer Interaction
Abbreviated title	ACM CHI 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose
Period	07.05.2016 → 12.05.2016
Internet address	https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/

Field of science

Visual arts and design

Access to research output

http://www.naturechi.net/2016/NatureCHI16.pdfLicence: CC BY

Citation for this output

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