Tangible interaction is an emerging field of human–computer interaction that links the digital and the physical worlds by embedding computation in physical artifacts and environments. This paper shares our experience teaching tangible interaction over the past 4 years in an interdisciplinary, project-based laboratory course at Tufts University. Although the course is offered through the Compute...

We developed Tangible Tracking Table (TTT), an interactive tabletop display that allows both fingertip and tangible object tracking. Multiple users can simultaneously control a variety of tagged objects that can perform different tasks. We also introduce several applications on TTT that utilize the advantages of this tangible user interface.

The majority of educational software is designed for traditional computers, which allow little opportunity for physical manipulation of an environment. Tangible Activities for Geometry (TAG) provides students a tangible learning environment. Currently, however, TAG does not employ adaptive scaffolding techniques. Accordingly, we describe how scaffolding techniques and teachable agent behaviors ...

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Tangible user interfaces promise to support a more collaborative and comprehensible way of interaction by making digital data tangible and using physical objects as controls of digital information. Mixed reality deals with the combination of both real and virtual elements within a same visual display in order to produce a more elaborate environment. This thesis analyzes the main interaction tas...

Providing noncontingent access to a stimulus until an individual displays behavioral indicators of satiation has been used to determine when an abolishing operation is in effect, but there has been variation in its application in the literature. Four males diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder with tangibly maintained challenging behavior participated in this study. Individualized behavioral ...

“Penguin Hockey”: A Tangible Playroom for Children Akihiko Shirai, Shouichi Hasegawa, Yasuharu Koike and Makoto Sato Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology. We have developed an interactive installation called "Penguin Hockey". It is a demonstration content of "Tangible Playroom" for children. Tangible playroom looks an empty children's room but it has large tangib...

We investigate the similarities and differences – in terms of quantitative performance and qualitative behaviors – between how children solve an object manipulation task using mouse-based input versus tangible-based input. This work examines the assumption common in tangible computing that direct physical manipulation is beneficial for certain spatial tasks. We describe an ecologically valid co...