We present an innovative drawing tool that can detect tangible drawing instruments on a capacitive multi-touch tablet. There are three core components to the system: the tangible hardware, the recognizer used to identify the tangibles, and the drawing application. Our tangible drawing instruments include a ruler, protractor and set square. Users can apply these familiar physical instruments to ...

This paper compares the disciplines of Enactive Interfaces and Tangible User Interface design with the aim of showing that by considering the design knowledge of Tangible User Interfaces with the cognitive depth of the theories of enaction, a new type of “enactive tangibleuser-interface” can be designed. Introductions to both disciplines are given, before a method of gauging the enactive potent...

This paper introduces the tangible video system (TVS), a tangible interface for editing sequences of digital video clips. The TVS features multiple handheld computers embedded in specialized cases. It can be used on any surface under normal lighting conditions without the need for an augmented surface, computer vision system, or video projector. We aim the tangible video system for use in educa...

We have in the past described several approaches to programming with tangible interfaces – both specific programming languages implemented in physical form, and physical interfaces (for example to domestic appliances) that have some programmable capabilities. In this paper, we investigate the more generic properties of tangible interfaces as a basis for programmable functionality. The specific ...

In this paper we present two tangible interactive entertainment interfaces using physical cubes. In the first paradigm, Magic Story Cube, we novelly used a foldable cube for tangible and interactive story telling. In the second paradigm, Jumanji Singapore, physical dices are used to directly manipulate and control the process Jumanji board game. In both of our systems, we embedded both the conc...

This paper proposes tangible interfaces and interactions for authoring 3D virtual and immersive scenes easily and intuitively in tangible augmented reality (AR) environment. It provides tangible interfaces for manipulating virtual objects in a natural and intuitive manner and supports adaptive and accurate vision-based tracking in AR environments. In particular, RFID is used to directly integra...

This article presents a pilot study of the use of two new tangible interfaces and virtual worlds for teaching geometry in a secondary school. The first tangible device allows the user to control a virtual object in six degrees of freedom. The second tangible device is used to modify virtual objects, changing attributes such as position, size, rotation and color. A pilot study on using these dev...