2019
Baishya, Uddipana, Antle, Alissa N., McLaren, Elgin-Skye
Idea Bits: A Tangible Design Tool to Aid Idea Generation for Tangible Manipulation Proceedings Article
In: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1–6, Association for Computing Machinery, Glasgow, Scotland Uk, 2019, ISBN: 9781450359719.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: design tools, Idea generation, manipulation, Tangible interaction design, Tangible User Interfaces
@inproceedings{10.1145/3290607.3312820,
title = {Idea Bits: A Tangible Design Tool to Aid Idea Generation for Tangible Manipulation},
author = {Uddipana Baishya and Alissa N. Antle and Elgin-Skye McLaren},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312820},
doi = {10.1145/3290607.3312820},
isbn = {9781450359719},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
pages = {1–6},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {Glasgow, Scotland Uk},
series = {CHI EA '19},
abstract = {Tangible interaction design students often find it difficult to generate ideas for tangible manipulation. They often restrict their explorations to a few familiar possibilities. To our knowledge, there is no design tool that focuses on facilitating the exploration of a variety of manipulation and aiding generation of ideas for manipulation. To address this gap, we designed Idea Bits, a tangible design tool consisting of interactive physical artifacts that enable users to experience a set of manipulations. These artifacts are coupled with digital examples of tangible systems and technical implementation guidance to help users understand how to implement the manipulations. Our work contributes knowledge about the generation of ideas for manipulation and will be useful to tangible interaction design students, instructors, practitioners, and researchers.},
keywords = {design tools, Idea generation, manipulation, Tangible interaction design, Tangible User Interfaces},
pubstate = {published},
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}
Tangible interaction design students often find it difficult to generate ideas for tangible manipulation. They often restrict their explorations to a few familiar possibilities. To our knowledge, there is no design tool that focuses on facilitating the exploration of a variety of manipulation and aiding generation of ideas for manipulation. To address this gap, we designed Idea Bits, a tangible design tool consisting of interactive physical artifacts that enable users to experience a set of manipulations. These artifacts are coupled with digital examples of tangible systems and technical implementation guidance to help users understand how to implement the manipulations. Our work contributes knowledge about the generation of ideas for manipulation and will be useful to tangible interaction design students, instructors, practitioners, and researchers.
2018
Fan, Min, Baishya, Uddipana, Mclaren, Elgin-Skye, Antle, Alissa N., Sarker, Shubhra, Vincent, Amal
Block Talks: A Tangible and Augmented Reality Toolkit for Children to Learn Sentence Construction Proceedings Article
In: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1–6, Association for Computing Machinery, Montreal QC, Canada, 2018, ISBN: 9781450356213.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: augmented reality, blocks, children, colour cues, sentence construction, Tangible User Interfaces
@inproceedings{10.1145/3170427.3188576,
title = {Block Talks: A Tangible and Augmented Reality Toolkit for Children to Learn Sentence Construction},
author = {Min Fan and Uddipana Baishya and Elgin-Skye Mclaren and Alissa N. Antle and Shubhra Sarker and Amal Vincent},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188576},
doi = {10.1145/3170427.3188576},
isbn = {9781450356213},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
pages = {1–6},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {Montreal QC, Canada},
series = {CHI EA '18},
abstract = {The Block Talks toolkit combines the educational potential of tangible computing and augmented reality (AR) technologies to help children learn English sentence construction. Although examples of tangible AR reading systems for children currently exist, few focus specifically on learning sentence structure. Block Talks was developed using ordinary teaching supplies including letter tiles and blocks that can be manipulated to form words and sentences. A companion app allows children to scan these sentences to receive audio and AR feedback. Block Talks takes advantage of colour cues to draw children's attention to sentence structure patterns. This paper outlines existing tangible and AR systems for literacy learning, details the Block Talks design rationale, and concludes with a discussion of the advantages of using a combined tangible and AR approach for teaching sentence construction.},
keywords = {augmented reality, blocks, children, colour cues, sentence construction, Tangible User Interfaces},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
The Block Talks toolkit combines the educational potential of tangible computing and augmented reality (AR) technologies to help children learn English sentence construction. Although examples of tangible AR reading systems for children currently exist, few focus specifically on learning sentence structure. Block Talks was developed using ordinary teaching supplies including letter tiles and blocks that can be manipulated to form words and sentences. A companion app allows children to scan these sentences to receive audio and AR feedback. Block Talks takes advantage of colour cues to draw children's attention to sentence structure patterns. This paper outlines existing tangible and AR systems for literacy learning, details the Block Talks design rationale, and concludes with a discussion of the advantages of using a combined tangible and AR approach for teaching sentence construction.