Material-centered design and evaluation of tangible user interfaces
Tanja Doering · 2010
This paper presents an overview of an ongoing doctoral research project on materiality and tangible user interfaces (TUIs). The aim of the thesis is to address materiality as an important design element of tangible user interfaces and develop a material-based design knowledge for TUIs, e.g., in the form of material-based design patterns and evaluation methods. This is done iteratively in three steps: (1) compilation of interdisciplinary material theories and their application to tangible user interfaces, (2) exploratory prototyping of material-based interaction, and (3) validation of developed design knowledge and evaluation techniques in evaluations of TUI prototypes in different application domains.