@InProceedings{rittenbruch2020dis, author = {Rittenbruch, Markus and Schroeter, Ronald and Wirth, Florian and Alt, Florian}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference}}, title = {{An Exploratory Physical Computing Toolkit for Rapid Exploration and Co-Design of On-Bicycle Notification Interfaces}}, year = {2020}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, note = {rittenbruch2020dis}, pages = {873–884}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, series = {DIS'20}, abstract = {Cycling offers significant health and environmental benefits, but safety remains a critical issue. We need better tools and design processes to develop on-bicycle notification interfaces, for example, for hazard warnings, and to overcome design challenges associated with the cycling context. We present a physical computing toolkit that supports the rapid exploration and co-design of on-bicycle interfaces. Physical plug-and-play interaction modules controlled by an orchestration interface allow participants to explore different tangible and ambient interaction approaches on a budget cycling simulator. The toolkit was assessed by analysing video recordings of two group design workshops (N=8) and twelve individual design sessions (N=12). Our results show that the toolkit enabled flexible transitions between ideation and out-of-the-box thinking, prototyping, and immediate evaluation. We offer insights on how to design physical computing toolkits that offer low-cost, 'good enough' simulation while allowing for free and safe exploration of on-bicycle notification interfaces.}, doi = {10.1145/3357236.3395534}, isbn = {9781450369749}, numpages = {12}, timestamp = {2020.06.01}, url = {http://www.florian-alt.org/unibw/wp-content/publications/rittenbruch2020dis.pdf}, }