The Values of Tangible User Interfaces: How to discover, assess and evaluate them?

Since the introduction of Tangible User Interfaces, in the beginning of the 90s, a generation grew up interacting with computers. At the same time the context of computing changed dramatically: from a device used almost exclusively by specialists, it evolved to a general device that plays a dominant role in our societies. But where does this leave TUI? In many respects, the idea of tangibility plays a marginal role in Human Computer Interaction. It makes sense to re-evaluate the intrinsic values of TUI design. This paper proposes to research the appropriate metrics to do so.

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Sam Nemeth

Ben Salem

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 1-4

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[0001]School of Design, University of Northumbria

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

[0002]School of Engineering, University of Liverpool

Liverpool, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.11

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017)

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 31

Conference location: Sunderland, UK

Conference date: 3 - 6 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: digital make-believe, with delegates considering our expansive

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[1] C. GirotJ. MelsomA. Kapellos 2010 The Design of Materil, Organism, and Minds he Design of Material, Organism, and Minds, Part of the series X.media.publishing 109 115

[2] P. Dourish 2001 Where the Action is: the Foundations of Embodied Interaction MIT Press Cambridge

[3] H IshiiB Ullmer 1997 Tangible bits: towards seamless interfaces between people, bits and atoms Proceedings of CHI ’97 March 22 27

[4] G.W. FitzmauriceW. Buxton 1997 An empirical evaluation of graspable user interfaces: towards specialized, space multiplexed input Proceedings of CHI’97 43 50

[5] G.W. FitzmauriceH. IshiiW. Buxton 1995 Bricks: laying the foundations for graspable user interfaces Proceedings of CHI’95 442 449

[6] K.P. Fishkin 2004 A taxonomy for and analysis of tangible interface, from Personal and Ubiquitous Computing September 2004 8 5 347 358

[7] M. KaltenbrunnerS. JordaG. Geiger The reacTable* 2006 A Collaborative Musical Instrument, International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises WETICE ’06 15th IEEE

[8] G RevelleO. ZuckermanA. DruinM. Bolas 2005 Tangible User Interfaces for Children, Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2005 Portland, Oregon, USA April 2-7 2005

[9] O. ShaerN. LelandE.H. Calvillo-Gamez et al Pers Ubiquit Comput 2004 8 359 doi:10.1007/s00779-004-0298-3

[10] T. TullisB. Albert 2010 Measuring the User Experience, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc

[11] B UllmerH. Ishii 2000 Emerging frameworks for tangible user interfaces IBM Systems Journal 39 2000 915 931

[12] J. UnderkofflerH. Ishii 1999 Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 386 39

[13] O. ZuckermanS. AridaM. Resnick 2005 Extending tangible interfaces for education: digital Montessori-inspired manipulatives Proceedings CHI’05 859 868

[14] O ZuckermanA Gal-Oz 2013 To TUI or not to TUI: Evaluating performance and preference in tangible vs. graphical user interfaces International Journal of Human - Computer Studies July-August 2013 71 7-8 803 820

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