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CubeQuery: Tangible Interface for Creating and Manipulating Database Queries

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We demonstrate CubeQuery, a tangible user interface providing a physical way to both create and manipulate basic database queries. This interactive installation is designed for individual faceted browsing and allows users to explore contents of a database, i.e., a music library. While each tangible represents an individual search parameter of a search request, the physical arrangement of multiple tangibles permits the combination of search parameters by utilizing basic logical operators. Goal of this research is to explore the practicality of spatial arrangement of tangibles to ease the process of faceted browsing.

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    ITS '14: Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
    November 2014
    524 pages
    ISBN:9781450325875
    DOI:10.1145/2669485
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    1. database queries
    2. faceted browsing & search
    3. microsoft surface
    4. sifteo cubes
    5. tangible uis

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    November 16 - 19, 2014
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