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Research: mapping physical objects to digital functions: a tangible interface for Querying and Navigating a Multimedia Database

Abstract

In this work we propose a set of guidelines for tangible interfaces (TUI) for mapping physical objects and digital functions. These guidelines emphasize an aspect that has been only partly analyzed so far in TUI research: the role of the object shape as a means for suggesting how to manipulate the artifacts. The peculiarity of the proposal - general enough to be used for different application domains - is the mapping to discrete and continuous digital functions

based on the type of surfaces that define the physical artifacts of the interface. The application of the guidelines to a widely diffused task, the query and navigation of a multimedia database, and its evaluation with a class of students gave us interesting insights about the appropriateness of the mapping and its learnability.

Publication Type

Conference Paper

Authors

  • F. PITTARELLO
  • STECCA R.

Source

DEXA 2011, 22nd International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, p.134–138 (2011)

ISBN

978-0-7695-4486-1

Keywords

affordance, data query and navigation, discrete and continuous digital function, guideline, surface, tangible user interface (TUI)