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Material computing: computing materials

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Embedding computers into our environment is perhaps not only a job for computer scientist and engineers. We propose to understand the computer as a material for design as means to invite artists, architect, and designers to participate in envisioning how and where the computational power can be used. We will invite the conference attendees to (once again) think about how to bridge the so-called gap between computational and material properties but this time using a material rather than the traditional information centric perspective. The invitation is extended through hands-on experiences with our two samples of computational composites.

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    UbiComp '10 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference adjunct papers on Ubiquitous computing - Adjunct
    September 2010
    203 pages
    ISBN:9781450302838
    DOI:10.1145/1864431

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    Published: 26 September 2010

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    1. computational composites
    2. design
    3. formgiving
    4. materials
    5. ubiquitous computing

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    Ubicomp '10: The 2010 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
    September 26 - 29, 2010
    Copenhagen, Denmark

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    • (2021)Material Meets the City: Exploring Novel and Advanced Materials for the Smart Urban Built EnvironmentProceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction10.1145/3430524.3442701(1-5)Online publication date: 14-Feb-2021
    • (2020)Entangling the Roles of Maker and Interpreter in Interpersonal Data NarrativesProceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3357236.3395442(297-310)Online publication date: 3-Jul-2020
    • (2014)Giving form to computational thingsPersonal and Ubiquitous Computing10.1007/s00779-013-0685-818:3(577-592)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2014

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