ABSTRACT We claim that continuous interaction and multisensory feedback are key ingredients for successful interactive artefacts of the future. However, the complex web of sensors, actuators, and control logic that is necessary for exploiting such ingredients opens tremendous challenges to designers, who are used to visual thinking and discrete interactions. A method of research through pedagogical examples, called basic design and developed in some post-Bauhaus design schools, has been proposed as an effective mean to tackle the complexity of contemporary interaction design. Three such exercises, each prototypical for a class of interactions, are proposed here. The sonic feedback is realized through parametric control of sound synthesis algorithms
