LightSpace: An Interactive, Projection-Mapped (doll)House.

The home of the future will be an interface (in itself) much like current, omni-present screen-based, interfaces. Designing the interior of your home will be as gratifying and immediate as a click is today, with modular digital furniture becoming the status quo and their design democratized and in the hands of users. In this paper, we present LightSpace, an exploration for the future of design for the home. LightSpace focuses on a very specific solution to a simple problem – designing and stylizing an entire room with playful delight in mind. With our small-scale proof-of-concept tangible user interface (TUI), we account for the direct physicality of designing within a physical space by allowing users to move mini 3D printed furniture in a projection mapped dollhouse and switch materials using a magical wand (NFC). This exploration acts as a small-scale vehicle for us to investigate the usefulness, feasibility, and possible ubiquity for such an interface in the future.