While ethnographers and the data they produce already play a role in affecting industry practices, there is potential to integrate anthropological ways of seeing knowing into shared transdisciplinary design praxis. In series research experiments, we have taken pragmatic playful approach physicalizing theory. The result set ‘Theory Instruments’ that transform theory tangible interaction. Theory ...

We present Tangible-Tango, a system which enables users to fabricate new tangibles and their equivalent 3D virtual models. Thus the cognitive load required to understand and interact with virtual models is reduced. Users build new models by iteratively creating and assembling physical models. Each physical model has an associated virtual model. The new models, both virtual and tangible, can be ...

Vispol (Visualization for the police) is an interactive graph-based visualization that supports the work of the police of Hessen, Germany. A Vispol graph visualizes involved persons and their relations in crisis incidents like hostage takings or bank hold-ups. It presents a tabletop-based multi-touch and tangible user interface for the structured creation and manipulation of node-link diagrams....

This research aims to explore the effect of e-service quality on customer satisfaction and loyalty. Especially, the current paper focuses on customer perceptions and reactions to the tangible factors of e-service quality in the Business-to-Customer (B2C) area. This tangible eservice quality includes web design esthetics, ease of use, virtual tour, and visualization. In addition, intangible e-se...

This paper describes a small study of children’s drawings in the context of tangible interaction. The study was intended to discover what children could draw that would indicate what they understood about tangible interactions. Two different tangible interfaces were considered, and for each of these, a different reporting format was used. The children’s drawings were coded by three researchers ...