TY - JOUR
T1 - On tangible user interfaces, humans and spatiality
AU - Sharlin, Ehud
AU - Watson, Benjamin
AU - Kitamura, Yoshifumi
AU - Kishino, Fumio
AU - Itoh, Yuichi
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Like the prehistoric twig and stone, tangible user interfaces (TUIs) are objects manipulated by humans. Tangible user interface success will depend on how well they exploit spatiality, the intuitive spatial skills humans have with the objects they use. In this paper, we carefully examine the relationship between humans and physical objects, and related previous research. From this examination, we distill a set of observations and turn these into heuristics for incorporation of spatiality into TUI application design, a cornerstone for their success. Following this line of thought, we identify "spatial TUIs," the subset of TUIs that mediate interaction with shape, space and structure. We then examine several existing spatial TUIs using our heuristics.
AB - Like the prehistoric twig and stone, tangible user interfaces (TUIs) are objects manipulated by humans. Tangible user interface success will depend on how well they exploit spatiality, the intuitive spatial skills humans have with the objects they use. In this paper, we carefully examine the relationship between humans and physical objects, and related previous research. From this examination, we distill a set of observations and turn these into heuristics for incorporation of spatiality into TUI application design, a cornerstone for their success. Following this line of thought, we identify "spatial TUIs," the subset of TUIs that mediate interaction with shape, space and structure. We then examine several existing spatial TUIs using our heuristics.
KW - Affordances
KW - Design heuristics
KW - Patial mappings
KW - Tangible user interfaces
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U2 - 10.1007/s00779-004-0296-5
DO - 10.1007/s00779-004-0296-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33744917377
SN - 1617-4909
VL - 8
SP - 338
EP - 346
JO - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
JF - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
IS - 5
ER -