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Informing design by recording tangible interaction.

Esteves, Augusto; Oakley, Ian

Authors

Augusto Esteves

Ian Oakley



Abstract

Evaluating tangible user interfaces is challenging. Despite the wealth of research describing the design of tangible systems, there is little empirical evidence highlighting the benefits they can confer. This paper presents a toolkit that logs the manipulation of tangible objects as a step towards creating specific empirical methods for the study of tangible systems. The paper argues that the data derived from toolkit can be used in three ways. Firstly: to compare tangible interaction with other interaction paradigms. Secondly: to compare among different tangible interfaces performing the same tasks. Thirdly: via integration into a structured design process. This paper focuses on this last topic and discusses how detailed data regarding object use the data could be integrated into classifications and frameworks such as the Shaer's et al's TAC paradigm.

Citation

Esteves, A., & Oakley, I. (2011, May). Informing design by recording tangible interaction. Presented at Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '11, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Presentation Conference Type Conference Paper (published)
Conference Name Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '11
Start Date May 7, 2011
End Date May 12, 2011
Online Publication Date May 7, 2011
Publication Date 2011
Deposit Date Jul 21, 2017
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
ISBN 9781450302685
DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979893
Keywords Tangible interaction, toolkit,
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/964951