Ge Guo S. , CAÑETE YAQUE, RAQUEL, Yu J.J. , Leshed G. , Walker I. , Evan Green K. , Oliver N. , ; Shamma D.A. , ; Candello H. , ; Cesar P. , ; Lopes P. , ; Bozzon A. , ; Kosch T. , ; Liao V. , ; Ma X. , ; Artizzu V. , ; Draxler F. , ; Lopez G. , ; Reinschluessel A.V. , ; Tong X. , ; Toups Dugas P.O.
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Conference On Human Factors In Computing Systems - Proceedings
Conference Paper
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0
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01/01/2026
2-s2.0-105038769979
As domestic environments are increasingly required to meet diverse and changing human needs within constrained spaces, physical reconfigurability offers a promising solution. We developed a full-scale, manipulable room prototype as an exploratory co-design instrument, enabling participants to bodily explore and reflect on reconfigurable living spaces. Through 12 sessions with 30 participants involving brainstorming, bodystorming, and interviews, we identified spatial design patterns and elicited perspectives on reconfigurable domestic environments. Our findings contribute a design pattern catalogue for reconfigurable spaces, alongside insights into the lived experience of reconfigurability. We also discuss design principles, three affordance-based design dimensions that capture value tensions: empowering vs. restrictive, utilitarian vs. hedonic, and futuristic vs. practical, as well as lessons from co-design with a room-scale prototype. We demonstrate agile, room-scale prototyping as a methodological approach for spatial HCI research, advancing toward human-computer habitation, where interactive systems become inhabited built environments that support human values, creativity, and autonomy. © 2026 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
Architectural design; Human computer interaction; Human engineering; Interactive computer graphics; Interactive computer systems; Co-designing; Co-designs; Design Patterns; Domestic environments; Embodied interaction; Reconfigurability; Reconfigurable; Reconfigurable environment; Spatial interaction; Whole-room prototyping; Robotics