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| author | Sharlin, Ehud Watson, Benjamin Kitamura, Yoshifumi Kishino, Fumio Itoh, Yuichi |
| author_facet | Sharlin, Ehud Watson, Benjamin Kitamura, Yoshifumi Kishino, Fumio Itoh, Yuichi |
| contents | Like the prehistoric twig and stone, tangible user interfaces (TUIs) are objects manipulated by humans. TUI success will depend on how well they exploit spatiality, the intuitive spatial skills humans have with the objects they use. In this paper we carefully examine the relationship between humans and physical objects, and related previous research. From this examination we distill a set of observations, and turn these into heuristics for incorporation of spatiality into TUI application design, a cornerstone for their success. Following this line of thought, we identify spatial TUIs, the subset of TUIs that mediate interaction with shape, space and structure. We then examine several existing spatial TUIs using our heuristics. |
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| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | On tangible user interfaces, humans and spatiality Sharlin, Ehud Watson, Benjamin Kitamura, Yoshifumi Kishino, Fumio Itoh, Yuichi Human-Computer Interaction Like the prehistoric twig and stone, tangible user interfaces (TUIs) are objects manipulated by humans. TUI success will depend on how well they exploit spatiality, the intuitive spatial skills humans have with the objects they use. In this paper we carefully examine the relationship between humans and physical objects, and related previous research. From this examination we distill a set of observations, and turn these into heuristics for incorporation of spatiality into TUI application design, a cornerstone for their success. Following this line of thought, we identify spatial TUIs, the subset of TUIs that mediate interaction with shape, space and structure. We then examine several existing spatial TUIs using our heuristics. |
| title | On tangible user interfaces, humans and spatiality |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13167 |