ABSTRACT
Design and Physicality – Towards an Understanding of Physicality in Design and Use Prof. Alan Dix,1 Dr Steve Gill,2 Dr Devina Ramduny-Ellis1 and Jo Hare,2 (1University of Lancaster, 2University of Wales Institute, Cardiff)
We live in an increasingly digital world, yet our bodies and minds are naturally designed to interact with the physical. When designing purely physical artefacts we do not necessarily have to understand what it is about their physicality that makes them work – they simply have it. However, as we design hybrid physical/digital products we now have to understand what we lose or confuse by the added digitality; and so need to understand physicality more clearly than before. The Design for Physicality (DEPtH) project set out to develop new insights into our relationship with the physical.
