Assignment 1: Tangible User Interface (TUI) Analysis
Task A: due Friday 9/2 before class
Your first task is to present to the class a research paper about a tangible user interface.
To accompish this goal, you will first select a research paper a Doodle poll (invitation to the poll was sent to the course Google Group), then read the paper and prepare a 5-7 minutes Google Doc presentation. You should submit your presentation by sharing your Google Doc with the CS320TUI-F11 Google group on September 2nd before class, but your presentation in class may take place anytime during the semester.
Your presentation should cover the following aspects:
- What is the research problem the paper attempts to address? What is the motivation of the research work? Is the research work attempting to overcome the weaknesses of existing approaches? Is an existing research paradigm challenged? In short, what is the niche of the paper?
- What are the claimed contributions of the paper? What is new in this paper? A new interaction technique? A new tangible user interface? A new implementation technique? A new breed of software tools? In short, what is innovative about this paper?
- How do the authors substantiate their claims? What is the methodology adopted to substantiate the claims? What prototypes were built (describe in detail- feel free to use photos, diagrams or videos)? What user studies were conducted?
- What are the conclusions? What have you learned from the paper? Is the result generalizeable? Can the result be applied to other areas in the field? What are the open problems? In short, what are the lessons one can learn from the paper?
To prevent overlaps in presentations, use the Doodle survey to select a paper. The research papers can be found in the course E-Reserve folder on Google Docs.
Task B: due Friday 9/9 11:59 pm
In this task you will apply two of the following conceptual frameworks to analyze a TUI. Choose a TUI to analyze from the list below. If you already presented a paper from this list in class, choose a different TUI from the list to analyze. Your analysis should consist of a discussion that relates concepts or themes introduced by a framework to the TUI you selected. Most of the papers that introduce conceptual frameworks include case studies. Use these case studies as an example for how to structure your discussion.
Post your TUI analysis in your blog by the deadline.
Conceptual frameworks for TUIs:
- Reality-Based Interaction
- TAC Paradigm
- Hornecker & Buur (2006) (E-Reserves)
- Fishkin (2004)(E-Reserves)
TUI papers ( available in E-Reserve):
- Pico: a Table top interface for spatial problem solving
- Posey: Tangible Sketching in 3D
- Tangible Message Bubbles
- FluidPaint: Interactive Painting Tool with Real Brushes
- Tangible Video Editor (TVE)
- Topobo: a construction kit for prototyping motion
- Tern: a tangible programming language
- Reactable: a TUI for musical performance