Tangibles, in the form of physical artefacts that are electronically augmented and enhanced to trigger various digital events to happen, have the potential for providing innovative ways for children to play and learn, through novel forms of interacting and discovering. They offer, in addition, the scope for bringing playfulness back into learning. To this end, we designed an adventure game, whe...

In this paper, we present TNT (Touch ‘n’ Tangibles) a new combination of several existing hardware technologies, which are integrated into an LC-display. TNT enables users to interact using finger touch and tangible user interfaces at the same time on an active flat panel screen, while maintaining precise identification of all interactive objects and fingers. TNT can accurately distinguish betw...

Consumers may base employee impressions on physical appearance and displayed personal objects. In a scenario experiment, using photos of a physician and a 360-degree panorama of his consultation room, we examined the effects of appearance and tangibles on impression formation. Study 1 shows that observers employ various strategies of combining information from different sources when forming an ...

The study empirically tests a hierarchical second order model of customer perceived service quality for retail banking services with a first order model to develop better understanding of the structure of the concept. The results show that the service quality construct conforms to the structure of a second order factor model consisting of the dimensions of Service Delivery, Core Service, Tangib...

After decades of research and practice, the tangible interface community still contemplates the question of what tangibles might look and act like as they grow common. This paper discusses some fabrication techniques and commercial examples of a class of tangibles embodied as cylinders, wheels, or knobs that can function with mass-market multi-touch devices. We consider laser cut knobs, 3D prin...

We demonstrate a novel approach for the in-network detection of patterns in sensed data in extremely resource constrained wireless sensor networks specifically using the batteryless Intel WISP platform. Intel WISP nodes are particularly challenging for this task as they operate by harvesting electromagnetic power in the manner employed by passive UHF RFID tags; a fact that places very significa...

This study aims to examine the correlation of hotel service quality (i.e. assurance, reliability, responsiveness, tangibles and empathy) with tourists’ satisfaction. Results via correlation analysis, among 200 respondents who have already experienced the tourism product and services in Federal Territory of Labuan, Malaysia revealed that service quality is significantly correlated with empathy, ...