Freedom of fun, freedom of interaction

Wensveen, Stephan; Overbeeke, Kees; Djajadiningrat, Tom; Kyffin, Steven

doi:10.1145/1015530.1015559

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“…Firstly, this turn to embodied interaction can get human and social values back in balance. After the modernist tradition with its technology push and its passion for the logical, we now enter an era that shows respect for a person as a whole (with a mind, heart and body) and exploits all his skills [11]. Moreover, technology influences our culture and people's everyday lives, and embodiment can help to shape people's engagement with reality [12].…”

Section: The Importance Of Movement-based Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Move to get moved: a search for methods, tools and knowledge to design for expressive and rich movement-based interaction

Hummels

Overbeeke

Klooster

2006

Pers Ubiquit Comput

184

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The world is inherently meaningful for us, i.e. we perceive the world in terms of what we can do with it, and by physically interacting with it we access this meaning and express the meaning. We believe that this is the core reason and foundation for turning to movement-based interaction. 'Interaction creates meaning' does not only hold for users during interaction but also for designers when generating ideas and developing concepts. Therefore, we postulate that if one truly likes to design for movement-based interaction, one has to be or become an expert in movement, not just theoretically, by imagination or on paper, but by doing and experiencing while designing. In order to do so, we believe that designers need design tools, techniques, knowledge, awareness and skills that support their search for expressive, rich behaviour. Our search for this support resulted in several methods, tools and knowledge that help designers exploring, visualising and reflecting on interactions. Our developed methods and tools such as the Design Movement approach with its choreography of interaction, gestural design tools, interactive installations and interactive tangible sketching, have not only supported and inspired designers to design for movement-based interaction, but also resulted in surprising, fresh designs in comparison with the limited scope of rather uniform and traditional electronic consumer products. This paper discusses the possibilities and limitations of our approach.

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Section: The Importance Of Movement-based Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Move to get moved: a search for methods, tools and knowledge to design for expressive and rich movement-based interaction

Hummels

Overbeeke

Klooster

2006

Pers Ubiquit Comput

184

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“…4) Finally, from the observations during the experiment, we noticed a wide diversity in interaction styles with our TEI. Diversity in interaction styles is considered as a positive aspect of tangible interaction, in [7,39] Wensveen et al elaborate that "freedom of interaction is based on the exploitation of a range of perceptual-motor skills by offering the user myriad ways to reach the product's functionality". We anticipated a wide range in interaction styles, and our sensors were set to allow this.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…TEI is considered as more natural and to be preferred over a cognition driven approach, associated with personal computing paradigms [3,4,5]. Tangibles are linked to affective interaction [6,7]. TEI stimulates social interaction and sharing [8,9].…”

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The Unlikeability of a Cuddly Toy Interface: An Experimental Study of Preschoolers’ Likeability and Usability of a 3D Game Played with a Cuddly Toy Versus a Keyboard

2008

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Abstract. We report on a comparative study of the likeability and usability of a cuddly toy interface versus a keyboard interface. We put 35 preschoolers to the test and asked them to play a 3D game via a keyboard and via a cuddly toy interface. Afterwards the usability (user-friendliness) and the likeability (joy-ofuse) of both interfaces were assessed. Our results indicate that the cuddly toy interface was neither more likeable nor more usable than the keyboard interface. Based on additional qualitative data, we argument that the causes might be fatigue, a lack of meaningful use of gestures, and the occurrence of 'satisficing'.

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“…They explored several design tools and techniques for supporting designers towards the investigation and reflection of gestures and tangible interactions, among other paradigms. Wensveen et al [35] explored perceptual-motor skills, and the relationship between mood and interaction and found that indeed interaction patterns may communicate meaning and emotions. Schiphorst et al [24], inspired by interactive artworks, focused on the interaction with multi-touch tabletop artworks, and investigated materiality and the semantics of caress, i.e., "the different meanings encoded in touch and gestures".…”

Section: Human Factors and Meaningmentioning

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Tactile Experiences: User Interpretations and Meaning with Tablets

Zamani

Giaglis

Pouloudi

2014

2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Although touch computing has become an everyday occurrence, there has been little research into the subjective meanings people may assign to touchfocused IT artifacts. Following an interpretive case study with tablets, we examine blogposts, aiming to document user interpretations of the tablet, and to investigate the role of touch and that of cognitive ergonomics towards the formulation of subjective meanings. Our findings illustrate that users focus their evaluations on the limited use of physical controls, the direct, without physical barriers, interaction and the new interaction modalities. These evaluations contribute to interpreting the tablet as a 'significant other', as well as having extraordinary abilities, or holding symbolic significance. Since designing for positive experiences entails grasping the relationship users develop with their IT artifacts, our study's results can enrich the literature of user experience, and inform design by offering insight into user interpretations and their tactile experiences.

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Freedom of fun, freedom of interaction

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

Move to get moved: a search for methods, tools and knowledge to design for expressive and rich movement-based interaction

Move to get moved: a search for methods, tools and knowledge to design for expressive and rich movement-based interaction

The Unlikeability of a Cuddly Toy Interface: An Experimental Study of Preschoolers’ Likeability and Usability of a 3D Game Played with a Cuddly Toy Versus a Keyboard

Tactile Experiences: User Interpretations and Meaning with Tablets

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