Tangible Awareness

WallTokens: Surface Tangibles for Vertical Displays

“…Antle et al also showed that tangibles can be beneficial to the implementation of specific design strategies that enforce or encourage exchanges between users [2,12]. Finally, Cherek et al report on a study where participants were playing a game on a tabletop and had to react to others' actions while playing [8]. When performed with tangibles, actions were better detected than with virtual objects, suggesting that tangibles increase awareness of others' actions, which is key to collaboration [10,14].…”

“…They enable precise manipulations [13,15,43], support eyes-free control [21,45], can encourage specific collaboration strategies [2,12] or increase awareness of others' actions [8]. Such tangibles have been considered to interact with horizontal surfaces, e.g., [23,33,50], or with specific supporting structures [44].…”