Population stereotypes of color attributes for tangible interaction design
Diana Löffler · 2014
A promising approach to facilitate the design of intuitive interaction with tangible user interfaces (TUIs) is making use of image-schematic metaphors. Image-schematic metaphors function as population stereotypes that define the relations between physical object attributes and abstract, intangible information. However, it is technically challenging to implement the dynamic manipulation of physical object attributes like weight, temperature or surface properties. In contrast, changes in object color can be achieved easily and are rather inexpensive. Therefore, my doctoral work aims to investigate whether color is systematically linked to abstract concepts via image-schematic metaphor as well. Designers of TUIs may use validated color-to-abstract mappings to design for intuitive interaction with tangibles in abstract domains.