Enhancing everyday paper interactions with paper circuits

TY - GEN

T1 - Enhancing everyday paper interactions with paper circuits

AU - Shorter, Michael

AU - Rogers, Jon

AU - McGhee, John

PY - 2014/6/23

Y1 - 2014/6/23

N2 - Our interactions with paper are so habitual as to be subconscious. Paper is an inextricable component of our daily lives. In this paper we present the crafting of, and the reflections on, four prototypes; these prototypes explore how adding new functionality through paper circuits can enrich interactions with paper. We define paper circuits as circuits that have been made through the process of printing or applying conductive ink onto standard paper in order to form electronic or electric circuits. We will provide reflections on not just the benefits of paper circuitry, but also how the newly added affordances gained from paper circuitry effect the experience of paper interactions. This paper will illustrate how this new evolution of paper can be used to produce cheap lightweight ubiquitous electronic products, new art forms, and most importantly enhance the user experience of paper without losing the existing well-loved affordances that paper currently possesses.

AB - Our interactions with paper are so habitual as to be subconscious. Paper is an inextricable component of our daily lives. In this paper we present the crafting of, and the reflections on, four prototypes; these prototypes explore how adding new functionality through paper circuits can enrich interactions with paper. We define paper circuits as circuits that have been made through the process of printing or applying conductive ink onto standard paper in order to form electronic or electric circuits. We will provide reflections on not just the benefits of paper circuitry, but also how the newly added affordances gained from paper circuitry effect the experience of paper interactions. This paper will illustrate how this new evolution of paper can be used to produce cheap lightweight ubiquitous electronic products, new art forms, and most importantly enhance the user experience of paper without losing the existing well-loved affordances that paper currently possesses.

U2 - 10.1145/2598510.2598584

DO - 10.1145/2598510.2598584

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-1-4503-2902-6

SP - 39

EP - 42

BT - DIS '14

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

CY - New York

T2 - ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

Y2 - 21 June 2014 through 25 June 2014

ER -