Design and semantics of form and movement : DeSForM 2012 : Meaning. Matter. Making.

Softcover, 233 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. Very good. Proceedings of the 8th DeSForM conference, held at the School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, 18-20 April 2012, including abstracts of keynote speeches by Philip Beesley and Neil Leach and full text of other presentations. Semantic connections: a new interaction paradigm for smart environments / Bram van der Vlist, Gerrit Niezen, Jun Hu, Loe Feijs -- Table manners: the influence of context on gestural meaning / Tom Djajadiningrat, Luc Geurts, Jeanne de Bont -- Persuasive design for energy saving behavior through social gaming / Iyengar Vaijayanthi, Madhusudhan Marur -- Four installations inviting playful interaction / Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath -- Fluenci: the expression of expressing / Jaap Knoester, Tom Djajadiningrat, Philip Ross -- Fictional emotions within emotion driven design / Eva Knutz -- Co-authored narrative experience: affective, embodied interaction through combining the diachronic with the synchronistic / Carol MacGillivray, Bruno Mathez -- Semantics of surprise: strategies for eliciting surprise through design / Edgar Rodríguez Ramírez -- The role of designer expertise in source selection during product metaphor generation / Nazli Cila, Paul Hekkert, Valentijn Visch -- Design and iconicity: design, materiality, and the meaning of things / Jorn Guldberg -- Embracing relational agency in design process / Baki Kocaballi, Petra Gemeinboeck, Rob Saunders, Lian Loke, Andy Dong -- Beyond metaphor in product use and interaction / Thomas Markussen, Elif Ozcan, Nazli Cila -- Graphic design and the tyranny of connoisseurship: an argument for a semiotic approach to graphic design pedagogy / Alan Young -- Grace: a gesture-controlled wake-up light / Tom Djajadiningrat, Luc Geurts, Jeanne de Bont, Pei-Yin Chao. The aesthetics of immateriality in design: smartphones as digital artifacts / Mads Folkmann -- Elevating the everyday: designed objects as companions / Cassie Hester -- Tradition and innovation: a study on reconfiguration of product language throguh innovative approach / Ozge Merzali Celikoglu -- Controlling smart home environments with semantic connections: a tangible and an AR approach / Bram van der Vlist, Gerrit Niezen, Stefan Rapp, Jun Hu, Loe Feijs -- An aesthetics of touch: investigating the language of design relating to form / Vicktoria Teinaki, Bruce Montgomery, Nicholas Spencer, Gilbert Cockton -- / Learn to make, make to learn: reflections from sketching haptics workshops / Camille Moussette -- A study on a tangible interaction approach to managing wireless connections in a smart home environment / Jeroen Peeters, Bram van der Vlist, Gerrit Niezin, Jun Hu, Loe Feijs -- Yeti: designing geometric tools with interactive programming / Daniel Davis, Jane Burry, Mark Burry -- Towards a responsive architectural morphing skin / Chin Koi Khoo -- Digital-physical hybrid design: harmonizing the real world and the virtual world / Mizuki Sakamoto, Tatsuo Nakajima, Todorka Alexandrova -- Digital craft in digital space: a paradigm shift in the making / Maxe Fisher, Simon Fraser, Tim Miller, Ross Stevens, Jerad Tinnin, Annelies Zwaan.…