Learning from Users: Everyday Playful Interactions to Support Architectural Spatial Changes
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User study with 17 interviews and a 13-person diary in gated Istanbul communities identifies 12 spatial play potentials grouped into four themes: creating/expanding play-spaces, balancing play and comfort, intertwining imagination with spatial experience, and gamifying household interactions. From these, the work derives three design implications—shape-changing wearable and structural elements, embedded communication channels in walls, and homes-as-playmates—and sketches an "Evolving Home" prototype idea that embeds AI in walls and shape-changing panels for non-simultaneous, playful domestic interactions (idea stage, not built).
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