Physicality 2009 - towards a less-GUI interface Third International Workshop on Physicality

multi-disciplinary workshop is the third in its series aiming to explore the issues surrounding physicality. As digital technology increasingly invades the devices and products that surround us, interaction designers and product designers need to make sense of the subtle interactions between physical form and activity and the way these influence and are influenced by digital functionality and interaction. Our theme is "towards a less-GUI interface" inspired by the need to reduce the reliance on tiny screens through effective physical design. Such screens not only have an increasingly limited utility with an aging population but they are not always optimal.