Tangible Interaction and Industrial Degrowth

Catherine Letondal (1, 2) , Aurélien Tabard (3) , Laetitia Bornes (1) , Augusto Esteves (4) , Martin Hachet (5) , Valérie Maquil (6) , Anne Roudaut (7)

1 ENAC - Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile
2 UT - Université de Toulouse
3 SICAL - Situated Interaction, Collaboration, Adaptation and Learning
4 Université de Lisbonne
5 Potioc - Popular interaction with 3d content
6 LIST - Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
7 University of Bristol [Bristol]

This position paper seeks to ground and outline a discussion on environmental issues related to tangible user interfaces. The discussion that we present here started during a panel on "Tangible Interaction and Industrial Degrowth" that took place during the ETIS European studio on tangible interaction in November 2022 [5]. The panel discussed the problem from various angles and took input from the participants of the studio in the form of an online mapping brainstorm. The topics covered ranged from environmental feedback aspects to low-tech alternatives, as well as systemic, methodological and regulation considerations. This position paper reports on the approaches that were discussed and, based on these first insights, suggests directions for sustainable tangible interaction.

Mots clés: tangible interaction; sustainability; industrial degrowth; eco-feedback; fabrication; materials; environmental awareness; situated visualization; mixed-reality; waste; hacking

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Catherine Letondal, Aurélien Tabard, Laetitia Bornes, Augusto Esteves, Martin Hachet, et al.. Tangible Interaction and Industrial Degrowth: Follow-up of a panel on environmental issues in tangible interfaces at ETIS 2022.. 2023. ⟨hal-04076777⟩