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The Interaction Engine

In: Design Thinking Research

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  • Nikolas Martelaro

    (Center for Design Research)

  • Wendy Ju

    (Center for Design Research)

  • Mark Horowitz

    (Center for Design Research)

Abstract

The Interaction Engine is a framework for prototyping interactive, connected devices based on widely available single-board Linux computers. With microcontrollers, networking, and modular open-source software, these modules enable interaction modalities such as audio, video, tangible, and digital interfaces to be embedded into forms that go beyond traditional computing. In this paper, we outline the hardware and software components that make up the general Interaction Engine framework and discuss its benefits for interaction designers. We provide an illustrative case study of the Interaction Engine in use. We ran workshops to introduce designers to the Interaction Engine framework and we describe the projects where they subsequently employed Interaction Engines to understand issues and opportunities presented by this model. In describing the framework and case studies, we intend to shift designer’s thinking of computer as product to computer as material to create new interactive devices.

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  • Nikolas Martelaro & Wendy Ju & Mark Horowitz, 2018. "The Interaction Engine," Understanding Innovation, in: Hasso Plattner & Christoph Meinel & Larry Leifer (ed.), Design Thinking Research, pages 147-169, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:undchp:978-3-319-60967-6_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60967-6_8
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