Preparation FMP - 2024

Project name: "INTERACTIVE CERAMICS: An Explorative Research to Discover the Possible Role of Porcelain in the Field of Human Computer Interaction"
Co-designers: -
Grade: P
Expertise Areas: CA / TR / US
​​​​​​​Project description
This is an explorative research towards the combination of ceramics and electronics. Four directions were explored. The first exploration demonstrated the translucency of porcelain in which tiles were constructed using different thicknesses, creating patterns with various shades of seethroughness. The second exploration focussed on Rice Grain Porcelain ​​​​​​​(WatersilkDragon, 2015). This technique creates glaze windows in ceramicware, these windows were combined with light dependent resistors (LDR’s). The third exploration was a ceramic interactive module. This module combined several potentiometers and LED strips together with ceramics. And the fourth exploration focussed on ceramic textures and people’s associations with these textures.

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Reflection 
During this project, I was introduced to the Studio approach (Goveia de Rocha et al., 2022). This approach allowed me to heavily focus on tinkering with the material and evaluating the process. The emphasis on the material and discovering its characteristics and possible applications gave me the freedom to experiment using my own ideas and curiosities.

Furthermore, I looked into electronics. Together with a friend I looked into the various potentiometers and LED strips. Seeing the possibilities of electronics made me curious and motivated to also use them in my FMP.

Lastly, I used a quantitative data analysis method. Although this method fitted the evaluation goal, it still felt like quantitative data gathering misses its depth and motivation for certain choices. Therefore, I still give my preference to qualitative data gathering methods or using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods.
Watersilkdragon. (2015, December 7). Deconstructing the ‘Rice Grain’ pattern on Chinese porcelain – Late Qing to PRC. Watersilkdragon. https://watersilkdragon.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/
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Goveia da Rocha, B., Andersen, K., & Tomico, O. (2022, June). Portfolio of Loose Ends. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 527-540). https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3532106.3533516
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