Cyano-Chromic Interface: Aligning Human-Microbe Temporalities Towards Noticing and Attending to Living Artefacts

Jiwei Zhou; Raphael Kim; Zjenja  Doubrovski; Joana   Martins; Elisa Giaccardi; Elvin Karana

doi:10.1145/3563657.3596132

Cyano-Chromic Interface: Aligning Human-Microbe Temporalities Towards Noticing and Attending to Living Artefacts

Jiwei Zhou, Raphael Kim, Zjenja Doubrovski, Joana Martins, Elisa Giaccardi, Elvin Karana

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Abstract

Microbes offer designers opportunities to endow artefacts with environmental sensing and adapting abilities, and unique expressions. However, microbe-embedded artefacts present a challenge of temporal dissonance, reflected by a “time lag” typically experienced by humans in noticing the gradual and minute shifts in microbial metabolism. This could compromise fluency of interactions and may hinder timely noticing and attending to microbes in living artefacts. In addressing this challenge, we introduce Cyano-chromic Interface, in which photosynthetic activity of cyanobacteria (Synechocystis sp. PCC6803) is timely surfaced by an electrochromic (EC) material through its monochromatic display. Grounded through interface performance characterization and design primitives, we developed application concepts through which we instantiate how the interface can be tuned for diverse functional and experiential outcomes in living artefacts. We further discuss the potential of aligning human-microbe temporalities for enriched interactions and reciprocal relationships with microbes, and beyond.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Dis '23 Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Editors	D. Byrne, N. Martelaro
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	820–838
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-9893-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596132
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS'23) - Pittsburgh, United States Duration: 10 Jul 2023 → 14 Jul 2023

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Conference	2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS'23)
Country/Territory	United States
City	Pittsburgh
Period	10/07/23 → 14/07/23

Keywords

cyanobacteria
human-microbe interactions
temporality
living media interfaces
microbial displays
Biological-HCI
microorganisms
surfacing livingness

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Best Paper Honourable Mention
Zhou, J. (Recipient), Kim, Raphael (Recipient), Karana, E. (Recipient), Giaccardi, E. (Recipient) & Doubrovski, E.L. (Recipient), 2023
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Zhou, J., Kim, R., Doubrovski, Z., Martins, J., Giaccardi, E., & Karana, E. (2023). Cyano-Chromic Interface: Aligning Human-Microbe Temporalities Towards Noticing and Attending to Living Artefacts. In D. Byrne, & N. Martelaro (Eds.), Dis '23 Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 820–838). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596132

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Zhou, J , Kim, R , Doubrovski, Z , Martins, J , Giaccardi, E & Karana, E 2023, Cyano-Chromic Interface: Aligning Human-Microbe Temporalities Towards Noticing and Attending to Living Artefacts. in D Byrne & N Martelaro (eds), Dis '23 Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, USA, pp. 820–838, 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS'23), Pittsburgh, United States, 10/07/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596132

Cyano-Chromic Interface: Aligning Human-Microbe Temporalities Towards Noticing and Attending to Living Artefacts. / Zhou, Jiwei ; Kim, Raphael ; Doubrovski, Zjenja et al.
Dis '23 Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. ed. / D. Byrne; N. Martelaro. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023. p. 820–838.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceedings/Edited volume › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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Zhou J , Kim R , Doubrovski Z , Martins J , Giaccardi E , Karana E. Cyano-Chromic Interface: Aligning Human-Microbe Temporalities Towards Noticing and Attending to Living Artefacts. In Byrne D, Martelaro N, editors, Dis '23 Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2023. p. 820–838 doi: 10.1145/3563657.3596132

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