tangible+interaction

Tangible Interaction
A tangible user interface (TUI) is a user interface in which a person interacts with digital information through the physical environment. The initial name was Graspable User Interface, which is no longer used.

A pioneer in tangible user interfaces is Hiroshi Ishii, a professor in the MIT Media Laboratory who heads the Tangible Media Group. His particular vision for tangible user interfaces is to give physical form to divital information, making bits directly manipulable and perceptible.

• tangibility / materiality • bodily / embodied interaction • physical representation of data • embeddedness in real space, and augmentation of physical spaces
 * Tangible interaction** denotes systems that rely on:

In different systems these characteristics can be of various intensity. Tangible interaction is an umbrella term which encompasses approaches from HCI, computer science, product design and the interactive arts.




 * Characteristics of Tangible User Interfaces**

1. Physical representations are computationally coupled to underlying digital information. 2. Physical representations embody mechanisms for interactive control. 3. Physical representations are perceptually coupled to actively mediated digital representations. 4. Physical state of tangibles embodies key aspects of the digital state of a system.


 * Sources**

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangible_User_Interface http://www.ehornecker.de/TangiblesFramework.html

Created by: csping