Mikael Wiberg
Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden

Interactive Architecture or Interaction through Textures
Our built environment is undergoing a transformation in terms of digitalization. Computers are embedded into our physical environment and small computational devices accompany us as we move about. Mainly installed for functional purposes, digital technology is now beginning to be seen as a design material in support of social interaction, play and experiences. Researchers now address concepts such as ubiquitous computing, interactive architecture, responsive environments, media places, hybrid spaces, ambient intelligence, and digital art installations.

Mikael Wiberg will address this development and present Umeå’s research in Interactive Architecture, particularly ArchITechtum, an architecturally situated interaction design project in the design of digital devices informed by architectural thinking and environmental psychology; and the implications of work on embedded public displays at the ICEHOTEL. He will also present an IT- (“Interaction through Textures”) framework for interactive architecture built on the notion of the interaction society, built environments as communicated persistent structures, and ephemeral interaction, graceful interaction, and interaction landscaping – important human elements for understanding interaction through interactive architecture.

About the speaker
Mikael Wiberg is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics at Umeå University, Sweden. His Ph.D. in Informatics at Umeå 2001 was in the design of mobile CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) for ongoing interaction.

His current research focuses on the emerging Interaction Society and related issues of mobile CSCW, ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, availability management, interactive architecture, and interaction design. He edited a book on The Interaction Society (2004) and has published in international journals including ToCHI, BIT, IEEE Network, IEEE Pervasive Computing, WebNet Journal, International journal of Educational technology & Society, and international conferences including CHI, GROUP, Mobile HCI, HCI. His current project is [x]ID – Interaction Design in eXtreme environments

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