SMI 2014 - 3rd workshop on Smart Material Interfaces: materials for smarter interfaces

Organizers: Andrea Minuto, Anton Nijholt, Fabio Pittarello, Anne Roudaut, Kasper Anders Søren Hornbæk, Takuya Nojima,
The objective of this workshop is to draw attention to the emerging field of smart material interfaces, which spans the areas of design, engineering and architecture. These novel composites, which in some cases are already celebrated as the answer for the 21st. century’s technological needs, are generally referred to as materials that are capable of sensing the environment and actively responding to by changing their physical properties, such as shape, size and color. The workshop aims at stimulating research and development in interfaces that make novel use of smart materials, and will provide a platform for state-of-the-art design of smart material interfaces. In order to establish a rich live demo session throughout the conference we want to particularly encourage the submission of research that includes physical live demonstrators and experimental prototypes.