Co-located tabletop tangible user interfaces (TUIs) for music performance are known for promoting multi-player collaboration with a shared interface, yet it is still unclear how to best support the awareness of the workspace in terms of understanding individual actions and the other group members actions, in parallel. In this paper, we investigate the effects of providing auditory feedback usin...

We describe the development of a novel tangible interface we call the InterCUBE, a cube-shaped device with no external buttons or widgets. We study the implications of such a shape in terms of interactions, notably the degrees of freedom available and the manipulations possible. We also explain and investigate the merging of the action, perception and interaction spaces, and we design the Inter...

Personalization research for the Cultural Heritage domain has mostly focused on supporting the visitors by automatically creating the narratives and the visit experience. The meSch project shifts the focus of research from visitors to curators and re-designs the personalization process in a context of tangible interaction, to strengthen the role of human-supervised steps in the definition of th...

Can and should Mixed Reality (MR) be applied to all kinds of applications? Are there cases that are not suited for tangible interaction, e. g. violent games? Violence in games is certainly a technically simple, easy to comprehend, and conceptually effective way to foster player interaction, but how far are we willing to go with tangible interfaces? The game Photo Shooting plays with the analogy...

We present Touchology, a series of interactive plants that explore serenity and emotional attachment through meditative touch of plants with interactive audio-visualizations. Our approach focuses on creating various audio-visualizations for tactile interactions with living plants to enhance relationships betweeen the plants and users while evoking their empathy. Touchology was designed to offer...

Intuitive systems are usable systems. Design guidelines advocate intuitiveness and vendors claim it – but what does it mean for a user interface, interactive system or device to be intuitive? A review of the use of the term “intuitive” indicates that it has two distinct but overlapping meanings, namely intuitiveness based on familiarity and intuitiveness reflecting our embodiment (and frequentl...

This paper describes two acoustic impact localization techniques for tangible interface applications. A rising-edge detection method was used for the time delay of arrival (TDOA) approach and a cross correlation analysis for the location template matching (LTM) approach. These methods were experimentally investigated using tangible objects of different materials with different types of acoustic...

Territorial shifts are a vital part of a country’s history, mostly caused by wars, uprisings or other political processes. The most commonly used method to teach that matter, is to bring huge pull down maps to class and give verbal explanations while pointing at the map. Those maps are limited to one static image and therefore need a significant amount of imagination on the student’s side. This...

Where the sea meets the land, life has blossomed into a myriad of unique forms in the turbulence of water, sand, and wind. At another seashore between the land of atoms and the sea of bits, we are now facing the challenge of reconciling our dual citizenships in the physical and digital worlds. Our visual and auditory sense organs are steeped in the sea of digital information, but our bodies rem...

Business process modeling is the act of making explicit organizational knowledge about working procedures. Process models are diagrams that communicate activities, their routing order, documents, and responsibilities in visual graphs. Process models are created by modeling experts, such as business analysts and consultants. Experts of the domain, e.g. clerks and managers, share their knowledge ...