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AscoltaMe

Retracing the Computational Expressivity of a Tactful Object for Sensitive Settings

Conference Paper (2017)

Author(s)

Patrizia D'Olivo (TU Delft - Industrial Design Engineering)

Marco Rozendaal (TU Delft - Industrial Design Engineering)

Elisa Giaccardi (TU Delft - Industrial Design Engineering)

Research Group

Human Technology Relations

Communication Families Objects with Intent Tactfulness Computational expressivity Material qualities Temporal form Sensitive settings Disruptive life events

DOI related publication

https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064801 Final published version

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Publication Year

2017

Language

English

Research Group

Human Technology Relations

Pages (from-to)

943-955

ISBN (electronic)

978-1-4503-4922-2

Event

DIS'17 The 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (2017-06-10 - 2017-06-14), Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Abstract

This pictorial describes the process and rationale behind the design features of AscoltaMe (in Italian, "listen to me"). This is a computational object imbued with the intent to help families overcome the emotional barriers they may experience during a disruptive life event, as they attempt to maintain healthy communication. With a focus on the object's material qualities and temporal form, the pictorial introduces and visually outlines tactfulness as the fundamental characteristic that enables objects designed for sensitive settings to be intentful in ways that are appropriate and sensitive.