Next Steps in OUIs: Crafting Interactions with Deformable and Actuated Display Surfaces

New technologies and materials enable the physical form of display surfaces to become dynamic in terms of shape and movement. This enables devices to form a more intimate relationship with software data and the user’s environment. The research area of actuated interfaces aims at leveraging these qualities to enhance interaction with and representation of digital information, as well as creating new implicit communication channels between people and devices. This workshop provides a forum for debating emerging trends in deformable and actuated display surfaces that explore changes to the overall topology of display devices to enable more expressive interactions with digital information. Author