Saving and Restoring Mechanisms for Tangible User Interfaces through Tangible Active Objects

Eckard Riedenklau, Thomas Hermann, Helge Ritter (2011)
Proc. of the HCI International 2011 Conference, July 9-14, 2011, Orlando, Florida, USA

Summary
In this paper we present a proof of concept for saving and restoring mechanisms for Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs). We describe our actuated Tangible Active Objects (TAOs) and explain the design which allows equal user access to a dial-based fully tangible actuated menu metaphor. We present a new application extending an existing TUI for interactive sonification of process data with saving and restoring mechanisms and we outline another application proposal for family therapists.
This publication is part of the Tangible Active Objects (TAOs) research project

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