Employing and extending mass-market platforms as core tangibles
Brygg Ullmer, Guillaume Ardaud, Christian Dell, Alex Reeser, Narendra Setty, Rajesh Sankaran, Cornelius Toole · 2012
Core tangibles are tangible interface elements that support common behaviors across diverse computational systems. Where prior examples have centered upon passive tagged physical artifacts, we introduce complementary approaches employing and extending mass-market computational platforms. First, we show how several common smartphone platforms can serve core tangibles roles interoperably with other tagged objects. Second, we illustrate how the core tangibles concept can be used to extend the interactive real estate and capabilities of digital tablets and other mass-market devices.