Mensch-Computer-Interaktion

Assignment IV: Tangible User Interfaces

Anna-Lena Müller
Human-Computer Interaction Group
University of Bamberg
96045 Bamberg, Germany

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Introduction
 Interaction moves from being directly focused on the physical
machine to incorporating more and more of the user’s world
and the social setting in which the user is embedded. The
scope of human-computer interaction is expanding to include
larger-scale, longer-term phenomena of computer use.
 [Dourish 2001]

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Agenda
 Introduction to Tangible User Interfaces
 Assignment IV

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Introduction to Tangible User Interfaces

 Historical Development of UIs [Dourish 2001]
•  Electrical
•  Symbolic
•  Textual
•  Graphical
•  Embodied

Sources: [http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/; Iishi 2008].

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Introduction to
Tangible User Interfaces (cont’d)
  Tangible physical forms fit seamlessly into environment
•  Users can take advantage of haptic interaction skills
•  Digital information can be directly manipulated with hands

Source: [Ishii 2008]

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Introduction to
Tangible User Interfaces (cont’d)

Source: [Ishii 1997]

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Introduction to
Tangible User Interfaces (cont’d)

Source: [Ishii 1997]

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Introduction to
Tangible User Interfaces (cont’d)
 TUI key points
•  Computation that is beyond desktop
•  Interaction bases on users’ daily experiences of the physical world
•  Incorporation of a variety of (small and dedicated) devices
•  Augmentation of the everyday world with computational power

 Strongly connected to social computing

•  Sociological understanding of contexts influences design of
interactive systems
•  Understand individuals, their social entities as well as their
everyday life circumstances (cf. Activity Theory)

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Assignment IV
 Create an idea for a Tangible User Interaction in a Smart
Meeting Room
•  Think of the social interaction of multiple users during a meeting
•  Think of the multimodal personal interaction with the system (e.g.,
for presentation, note taking…)
•  Think of the specific tangible technical interaction with the system
(i.e., the TUI and the concrete user input)

Apply all steps of the Usage Centred Process Model as a team

to develop a system design

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Assignment IV
 You can decide for the tool to use
•  Use Pen’n’Paper (digitize afterwards by taking pictures)
•  Use drawio browser application (with provided library)

https://www.draw.io

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Assignment IV(cont’d)
 Your ToDos
•  Get together with your group
•  Create a vision of the scenario, the tasks and the interaction in a
meeting situation
•  Model an application design using the UCProMo
•  User Model (incl. user inventory, user profiles, user map)
•  Task Model (incl. task inventory, task profiles, task map)
•  Optional Context Model (incl. context inventory, context profiles,
context map)
•  Integration Model (incl. integration map, performance map)
•  Interaction Space Profiles for social, personal and technical
interaction

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Assignment IV(cont’d)
 Two (2) credits can be achieved in this assignment
•  Modeling social, personal, and technical interaction 60%
•  Model includes User Model, Task Model,
Integration Model and Interaction Space Profiles 40%
 
Submission
•  This assignment is due on 25 June 2019 (Tuesday!)
•  Please submit all documents in digital form
•  Please submit your results according to the submission
guidelines as archives in .tar.gz or .zip file format

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 Thank you!

Selected References
 Dourish, P. Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction. MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA, 2001.
 Ishii, H. Tangible User Interface and Its Evolution. Communications of the ACM. ACM, N.Y.
51, 6 (Jun. 2008). pp. 32-36.
 Ishii, H. and Ullmer, B. Tangible bits: towards seamless interfaces between people, bits and
atoms. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing
systems (Atlanta, Georgia, USA). ACM, N.Y., 1997. pp. 234-241.

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