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Workshop Maze Circuit: AI-Assisted Prototyping for Physical-Digital Interaction
When
Friday, 28 August 2026
13:00–18:00
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Maze Circuit is a hands-on workshop where bodies, conductive materials, simple electronics, web-based interfaces, and AI-assisted coding come together to create playful physical-digital experiences. Participants step into a maze built on the floor: a conductive playground made with copper tape, aluminum, graphite, paper, and other accessible materials. As they move through the space, touch hands, connect skin to skin, or complete paths with their bodies, they discover how closing a simple circuit can control what happens on screen. But Maze Circuit is not only about circuits. It is also about designing the digital experience connected to them. Working in small groups of 4 to 5 people, participants will create a simple web-based interface, game, or interactive experience that responds to the physical maze. This could become a collaborative Pong game, a visual feedback system, a playful navigation interface, a collective challenge, or another interaction imagined by the group. Throughout the workshop, we will use AI-assisted prototyping, also known as vibe coding, as a creative method. AI tools will support brainstorming, interaction design, game mechanics, code generation, debugging, and rapid experimentation. The goal is not to become an expert programmer in one afternoon, but to understand how an interaction idea can become a working prototype. Inspiration The workshop is inspired by the logic of the Makey Makey board: a playful circuit that reacts when human bodies and conductive materials complete a connection. In Maze Circuit, this principle becomes both a game and a prototyping tool. Imagine a floor labyrinth made of copper tape, aluminum, graphite, or paper. As players navigate it, they sometimes need to touch hands, feet, or connect with other bodies in order to advance. Their connection closes the circuit, and the circuit becomes an input for a digital interface. A well-known example of this logic is the Banana Piano, where bananas become the keys of a musical instrument. Just like fruit can become a keyboard, Maze Circuit invites you to rethink how everyday conductive materials, spatial movement, and even the human body can become unexpected interfaces for play. This workshop expands that idea into a collective prototyping environment. Instead of only testing a pre-built interaction, participants will design their own physical-digital system: one part conductive maze, one part web interface, one part game, one part social experiment. Why You Must Do This Workshop Most conversations about AI in design still happen around text, chatbots, image generation, productivity, and automation. Maze Circuit brings AI into a more physical, playful, and social space. In this workshop, AI becomes part of the making process. You will use it to help imagine interactions, structure ideas, write simple code, test behaviours, and connect a physical input to a digital output. You should join if you want to explore: how to prototype interactions beyond the screen how AI can support early-stage interaction design how physical materials can become interfaces how simple circuits can trigger digital experiences how bodies, movement, and collaboration can shape UX how vibe coding can support rapid prototyping how to move from concept to working prototype in one afternoon Maze Circuit is especially relevant for people from the UX, interaction, and design communities, as well as artists, educators, creative technologists, product thinkers, and anyone curious about playful interfaces, embodied interaction, and AI-assisted making. No previous coding or electronics experience is required. What You Will Learn How conductive materials such as copper tape, aluminum, graphite, and paper can be used to build simple circuits. How Makey Makey-style boards or similar input systems can register touch and transform it into input for a computer. How a physical circuit can communicate with a simple web-based interface. How to design a playful interaction th
- Where
- Schönaustrasse 13, 8620 Wetzikon, Wetzikon
- Organizer
- Lina Lopes
- Who's going
- ~40 expected
- Registration
- 🌍 Open to all
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