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Mementos: a tangible interface supporting travel

Esteves, Augusto; Oakley, Ian

Authors

Augusto Esteves

Ian Oakley



Abstract

Tangible interaction promises interfaces with ready affordances, which embrace physicality and which naturally support collaboration. However, the complexity of the hardware required to produce tangible systems has typically constrained their operation to highly specialized application areas and particular physical environments. This paper argues that this has limited the scope of research into such systems and addresses this issue by presenting Mementos, a tangible interface for tourists and travelers and intended to support all stages of a trip: preparation, experience, and remembering and reflecting. In this way, it explores how tangible interaction can support a complex real world task spread across time and multiple contexts. The paper describes the design, implementation and early evaluation of Mementos. It concludes that such work takes an important step towards popularizing tangible interaction.

Citation

Esteves, A., & Oakley, I. (2010, October). Mementos: a tangible interface supporting travel. Presented at Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Extending Boundaries - NordiCHI '10, Reykjavik, Iceland

Presentation Conference Type Conference Paper (published)
Conference Name Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Extending Boundaries - NordiCHI '10
Start Date Oct 16, 2010
End Date Oct 20, 2010
Acceptance Date Aug 28, 2010
Online Publication Date Oct 16, 2010
Publication Date 2010
Deposit Date Jul 21, 2017
Publicly Available Date Jul 26, 2017
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages 643-646
Book Title Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries
ISBN 9781605589343
DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/1868914.1868994
Keywords Context awareness, HCI, Tangible Interfaces, tourism
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/964997
Contract Date Jul 21, 2017

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