Séminaire de Master:
Tangible User Interfaces
(TUI)
Denis Lalanne
University of Fribourg
Tangible User Interfaces
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Master students:
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Dominique Guinard;
Baris Ulucinar;
Philipp Locher;
Reto Koenig;
Pedro DealMeida;
Cédric Chevillat.
To do:
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Attend the seminar;
Select one of the presented theme;
Read the related articles;
Present a summary of the
readings;
Write a 4-6 pages report on the
readings
Bachelor students:
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Mathias Mueller;
Herve Chiquet;
Mehdi Radgohar.
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Attend the seminar;
Present their Bachelor
projects and intermediate
status.
Tangible User Interfaces
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Giving physical form to digital information
~8000 BC: Clay Accounting Tokens
(Mesopotamia)
~3000 BC .. Today: Board games
(Mesopotamia)
1200 AD.. today: Abacus (China)
Tangibles@Fribourg:
MeModules = multimodal tangible interfaces for
daily life information management
Associative
Memory
Action
Materialization
device
association
Physical
reminder
Action
Materialization
association
device
MTangible
association
+
Electronic send
TUIs: Themes to study
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Tangibles, souvenirs and memories
Medias and Tangibles
Story telling and Tangibles
Tangible visualizations
Creativity, art and Tangibles
Classifications of Tangible User Interfaces
Tangibles, souvenirs and memories
Tangibles and medias
Tangibles and story telling
Dolltalk
TellTale
RoseBud
Pogo
Tangible visualisation
Tangibles, creativity and art
Tangibles classification
Digital associations
------------------------Physical object type
No existing
mental model,
mostly multiple users =
Generic object
With existing
mental model,
mostly single
user =
Personal object
Fixed (1)
Symbolic
(tool)
Bricks (1)
DataTiles (1)
FRIDGE (1)
Logjam (1)
MetaDESK (1)
musicBottles (1)
MusiCocktail (1)
Navigational
Blocks (1)
PingPongPlus (1)
Senseboard (1)
SiteView (1)
Soundgarten (1)
Task Blocks (1)
Triangles (1)
Urp (1)
Flexible (n)
Iconic
(tool)
Symbolic
(token)
ActiveCube (1)
BuildIt (1)
Illuminating
Light (1)
Lego-like
Blocks (1)
metaDESK (1)
Robotic toys (1)
SenseTable (1)
SiteView (1)
Urp (1)
BuildIt (0/1)
InfoStick (n)
MediaBlocks (n)
“memory
objects” (n)
MusiCocktail
(n)
Rosebud (n)
Senseboard
(0/1)
TellTale (0/1)
Triangles (0/1)
WebStickers (n)
WWICE (0/1)
Passage (0/1)
Iconic
(token)
POEMs (n)
Phenom (n)
Living
Memory Box
(n)
TUIs: References
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Tangibles, souvenirs and memories:
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Tangibles and medias:
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Beckman, C. and Dey, A. K. (2003). SiteView: Tangibly Programming Active Environments with Predictive Visualization, Adjunct Proceedings of UbiComp 2003,
167-168.
Streitz, N., Geissler, J., Holmer, T., Konomi, S., Müller-Tomfelde, C., Reischl, W., Rexroth, P., Seitz, P. and Steinmetz, R. (1999). i-LAND: An interactive Landscape
for Creativity and Innovation, Proceedings of the ACM Conference of Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’99), 120-127.
Tangibles, creativity and art:
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Glos, J. and Cassell, J. (1997a). Rosebud: Technological Toys for Storytelling, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
(CHI’97), New York, USA: ACM Press, 359-360.
Glos, J. W., and Cassell, J. (1997b). Rosebud: A Place for Interaction Between Memory, Story, and Self, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on
Cognitive Technology (CT’97), 88.
F. Decortis, A. Rizzo, L. Daele, L. Polazzi, B. Saudelli. Nouveaux instruments actifs et activités narratives: Pogo: vers un espace de création située. RIHM
Revue d'Interaction Homme Machine. Volume 2 - N° 2. 2002.
Tangible visualizations:
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Jun Rekimoto, Brygg Ullmer, and Haro Oba, DataTiles: A Modular Platform for Mixed Physical and Graphical Interactions, CHI2001, 2001.
Ullmer, B., Ishii, H. and Glas, D. (1998). MediaBlocks: Physical Containers, Transports, and Controls for Online Media, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH’98, 379-386.
Tangibles and story telling:
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Hoven, E. van den (2004). Graspable Cues for Everyday Recollecting, PhD Thesis, Depart-ment of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands, ISBN 90-386-1958-8.
Hoven, E. van den and Eggen, B. (2003). Digital Photo Browsing with Souvenirs, Proceedings of the Interact2003, 1000-1004. The accompanying video is available
on CD together with the book-format proceedings and can be retrieved from: http://homelab.htc.nl.philips.com/movies/index.html (Philips In-ternal only).
Ljungstrand, P., Redström, J. and Holmquist, L. E. (2000). WebStickers: Using Physical Tokens to Access, Manage and Share Bookmarks to the Web, Proceedings
of Designing Augmented Reality Environments, DARE’00.
N. Villar, K. Van Laerhoven, H.-W. Gellersen. "A Physical Notice Board with Digital Logic and Display" In Adjunct Proceedings of the European
Symposium on Ambient Intelligence 2004; ACM ISBN: 1-58113-992-6. pp. 207-217.
Streitz, N., Geissler, J., Holmer, T., Konomi, S., Müller-Tomfelde, C., Reischl, W., Rexroth, P., Seitz, P. and Steinmetz, R. (1999). i-LAND: An interactive Landscape
for Creativity and Innovation, Proceedings of the ACM Conference of Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’99), 120-127.
Classifications of Tangible User Interfaces:
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Hoven, E. van den, and Eggen, B. (2004). Tangible Computing in Everyday Life: Extending Current Frameworks for Tangible User Interfaces with Personal
Objects, Markopoulos et al. (Eds), proceedings of EUSAI 2004, LNCS 3295, Nov 8-10, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, pp. 230-242.
Ullmer, B. & Ishii, H.(2000). Emerging frameworks for tangible user interfaces, IBM Systems Journal, 39(3-4), 915-931.
Ullmer, B. and Ishii, H. (2001). Emerging Frameworks for Tangible User Interfaces. In J. M. Carroll (Ed.), Human Computer Interaction in the New Millenium,
Addison-Wesley, 579-601.
Fitzmaurice, G. W., Ishii, H. and Buxton, W. (1995). Bricks: Laying the foundations for Graspable User Interfaces, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human
Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’95), New York, pp. 442-449.
Links
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MIT Media Lab Tangible Media Group:
http://tangible.media.mit.edu/
Future Apllication Lab:
http://www.viktoria.se/fal/
TangInt wiki:
http://wiki.cct.lsu.edu/tangint/space/start
Tangible Visualization Group:
http://tangibleviz.cct.lsu.edu/
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea:
http://www.interaction-ivrea.it/
Preliminary Agenda
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Friday 2nd December 8.30am – 1pm:
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Friday 9th December 2 pm
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The digital desk – (Pierre Wellner) - IDIAP
The noise sensitive table and co. (Jean-Baptiste Haué) - EPFL
Friday February 3rd 2pm
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Bachelor intermediary presentations
Friday january 27th 2 pm
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« How to make a good scientific presentation » (Rolf Ingold)
Friday January 20th 2 pm
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Introduction to Tangible User Interfaces (Denis Lalanne)
RFID Technology (Bruno Dumas)
Phidgets and the programming framework (Florian Evequoz)
Friday December 23th 2 pm
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RFID workshop to attend: http://diuf.unifr.ch/softeng/rfid/
Master students seminar presentations
Friday 24th March 2pm
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Master students seminar presentations