Do Touch: The Impact of Tangible Interaction on Situated Community Engagement
Benjamin J Carden · Queensland University of Technology · 1905
This research investigated how the use of tangible interaction and map-based interfaces can affect the quality of participants responses to situated community engagement. This was done by creating two prototypes of a tangible mapping interface that were deployed as urban probes for community engagement. Results from the studies suggest that tangible interfaces encourage playful engagement and discussion, which in turn result in participants putting more thought into their responses and generating richer data.