Designing multisensory experiences is fascinating academics and practitioners alike. Recent advances in interactive systems and sensory devices also increasingly captures the attention of artists, museum curators, and creative industries, who aim to explore the opportunities of new and emerging technologies to create novel and unexpected experiences. The main objective of this tutorial is to increase the ISS communities’ awareness of design spaces beyond audio-visual and tactile interactions. In particular, we will provide an overview on olfactory design spaces and opportunities building on our expertise and experience working on multisensory design projects including the Tate Sensorium, Famous Deaths, Multisensory VR experiences.

Recent advances in printed electronics have enabled the creation and fabrication of thin,flexible and customizable interactive surfaces. These interfaces create opportunities for a variety of novel interactions leveraging on the unique form factor, flexibility and customization. Previous research has demonstrated the possibility of customizable multi-touch sensors, conformal on-skin interfaces and printable shape changing displays. The aim of this tutorial is to acquire basic conceptual and practical skills in developing interactive surfaces with printed electronics. Topics and learning outcomes of the tutorial include: personalized digital design and fast prototyping of printed electronics, basics of different sensors and actuators and developing sample application scenarios with printed interfaces.

• Website: http://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/qualitativeanalysis-iss-tutorial/

Do you want to learn more about analyzing qualitative data? This half-day tutorial is designed for beginning to intermediate audiences. We will focus on the basic methods for analyzing qualitative data using a mixture of talks and hands-on activities. In particular we will consider closed and open coding as well as clustering and categorizing coded data. After completing this tutorial, you will gain a richer understanding of the benefits and challenges of qualitative empirical research and, more specifically, how to analyze qualitative data.

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After 20 years of research, it is unclear what role the tabletop should play in the home or workplace. Progress has been made towards hardware and software interfaces, connectivity with nearby devices, and understanding human behaviour on and around the table — yet, in practice tabletops see limited use. This workshop seeks to explore the development and use of tabletops from historical, technical, and social perspectives. Workshop goals include synthesizing opinion and experience from new and established researchers on directions for tabletop research, and an open discussion of questions such as to what applications are tabletops best suited? and how can tabletops be better integrated into larger workflows and digital ecosystems?

• Website: http://dui-workshop.org/

  Nowadays, there is a growing evidence that people perform their daily tasks by using multiple devices at a time, such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, smart TVs, etc. The distributed interactions involved in these multi-device environments pose new challenges that deserve to be explored. In this sense, the main goal of this workshop is to join people together to discuss and advance the current state of these new technological ecosystems resulting from the existence of many heterogeneous devices and interaction mechanisms.