CS376 Introduction

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Tangible Interaction Augmented Reality
Scott Klemmer 24 October 2006
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• The future is already here. It is just not
  uniformly distributed
• William Gibson
• mentioned inBill Buxton, Forward Into the Past,
  Time Magazine, 10/11/2004 http//www.time.com/time
  /covers/1101041011/nextessay.html

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Graphical User Interfaces

• Potato, keyboard, small desktop
• Seated, single-user
• Structured tasks (word processing, spreadsheets,
  )

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Tangible User Interfaces

• Augment the physical world, integrating digital
  information with everydayphysical objects
• Generally, physical input controlsgraphical or
  audio output

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Three main types

• Everyday (no actuation)
• Mechatronic
• Ambient

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Rasa McGee et al, CHI02
Collaborage Moran et al, UIST99
Illuminating Light CHI98
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MediaBlocks Ullmer
Paper Flight Strips Mackay et al, CHI98
Palette Nelson, CHI99
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Books with Voices CHI03
Audio Notebook Stifelman, CHI01
Listen Reader Back, CHI01
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What is a tangible interface?

• Does my keyboard mouse count?
• Spatially multiplexed
• High degree of cognitive mapping

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What is augmented reality?

• At first blush, the integration of bits (carried
  by the user) into the world of atoms
• Does my mobile phone count?

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Next Time Design Tools

• DENIM An Informal Web Site Design Tool Inspired
  by Observations of Practice, Mark W. Newman,
  James Lin, Jason I. Hong, James A. Landay