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Dzmitry Aliakseyeu, Bernt Meerbeek, Jon Mason, Harm van Essen, Serge Offermans, Alexander Wiethoff, Norbert Streitz, Andrés Lucero
Designing Interactive Lighting
In Proceedings of the 9th International ACM Conference on Designing interactive Systems, DIS '12. Newcastle, UK, June 11 - 15, 2012.

LED-based lighting systems have introduced radically new possibilities in the area of artificial lighting. Being physically small the LED can be positioned or embedded into luminaires, materials and even the very fabric of a building or environment. Hundreds of LEDs can be used in a single luminaire or space, of which each could have different light output properties. The light switch therefore in many situations will need to be enhanced or fully replaced by intelligent controls and smart environments that are sensitive to the context and responsive to the people in the environment. The focus of this workshop is to explore new ways of interacting with light where lighting is no longer simply an on or off system, but a flexible system capable of creating a large range of functional, decorative and ambient light effects.