Comparing Children’s Enjoyment and Engagement Using Physical, Graphical and Tangible User Interfaces

Exploring Children’s Engagement, Enjoyment and Collaboration on Tangible User Interfaces

Gestus: teaching soundscape composition and performance with a tangible interface

Tangible user interfaces empower artists, boost their creative expression and enhance performing art. However, most of them are designed to work with a set of rules, many of which require advanced skills and target users above a certain age. Here we present a comparative and quantitative study of using TUIs as an alternative teaching tool in experimenting with and creating soundscapes with chil...

The Design of a Tangible User Interface for a Real-Time Strategy Game

Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) allow interaction with computer applications using physical objects called tangibles. TUIs have a number of latent advantages over traditional user interfaces including spatial naturalness and immediate haptic feedback where users receive both tactile and digital responses from computer systems. This paper presents the preliminary design and test results of a tab...

To TUI or not to TUI: Evaluating performance and preference in tangible vs. graphical user interfaces

Tangible user interfaces (TUIs) are often compared to graphical user interfaces (GUIs). However, the existing literature is unable to demonstrate clear advantages for either interface, as empirical studies yielded different findings, sometimes even contradicting ones. The current study set out to conduct an in-depth analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of both interfaces, based on a compari...

A New Trust Model for B2C E-Commerce Based on 3D User Interfaces

Lack of trust is one of the key bottle necks in e-commerce development. Nowadays many advanced technologies are trying to address the trust issues in e-commerce. One among them suggests using suitable user interfaces. This paper investigates the functionality and capabilities of 3D graphical user interfaces in regard to trust building in the customers of next generation of B2C e-commerce websit...