The direction of the development of the industrial design gradually approaches mechanical-electrical integration and informational and electronic products. With an increasing improvement of its technical content, and better social economic conditions, people’s consumption concept are getting more and more different. Consumer concerns not just the functionality and quality of the product, more a...

Industrial design and interaction design meet in the development of ubiquitous computing or Ubicomp, i.e., the currently emerging situation where information and communication technology move from the desktop to pervade most aspects of our everyday world. We show that the material qualities of Ubicomp coincide with the areas where contemporary industrial design and interaction design overlap th...