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Natural interface exploration

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Finding new and compelling approaches to interaction design for natural user interfaces, is challenging. The Natural Interface Exploration studio will offer participants the opportunity to explore interaction design for natural user interfaces based on physical substances that are used in everyday life. Studio organizers will present an overview of their methodology, providing examples of their experience [1, 2] and comparing it to other approaches. They will demonstrate how they analyze natural substances regarding the aspects of visualization and interaction and what kind of interfaces resulted [3, 4, 5] from these findings in initial workshops (see Figure 3 and 4).
Following the demonstration, participants will form teams and collaboratively decide which substances or materials they would like to analyze. After examining and charting relevant aspects, the teams will chose a certain task to be solved with a new kind of interface. Example tasks will be provided by the studio organizers. The next step will be to decompose the tasks into required interaction and information needs. Finally participants will develop their own interface mock-up using stop motion or paper prototyping. Finally, studio organizers will facilitate a group critique session and offer closing thoughts on employing this methodology in one's creative TEI practice.

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Brade, M., Kammer, D., Keck, M., Groh, R. Immersive data grasping using the explore table. Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction (TEI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA (2012), 419--420.
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Video documentation of explore table experiments: http://youtu.be/ygAq8JHGtvM.
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Brade, M., Brändel, C., Groh, R. BrainDump: taking fluid interaction literally. Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '12), Genny Tortora, Stefano Levialdi, and Maurizio Tucci (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA (2012), 790--791.
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Video demonstration of BrainDump interface. http://youtu.be/p4JCOcc24BI.
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Peschke, J., Göbel, F., Gründer, T., Keck, M., Kammer, D., Groh, R. DepthTouch: an elastic surface for tangible computing. Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '12), Genny Tortora, Stefano Levialdi, and Maurizio Tucci (Eds.). ACM, New York, USA (2012), 770--771.
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Video documentation of Explore Room experiments: http://youtu.be/ZdyBQ1HbBVg.

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    TEI '13: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction
    February 2013
    439 pages
    ISBN:9781450318983
    DOI:10.1145/2460625
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    • Sergi Jordà,
    • Narcis Parés

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    1. inspiration
    2. interaction design
    3. interface design
    4. physical materials
    5. tangible user interface

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