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The TAC paradigm: unified conceptual framework to represent Tangible User Interfaces

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This paper introduces a new paradigm for describing Tangible User Interfaces (TUI). The paradigm presented here encompasses existing TUI classifications and proposes a unified conceptual framework with which all TUIs can be understood. In order to show that the new paradigm holds and can be generalized we analyzed several existing TUIs using the proposed paradigm.

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    CLIHC '03: Proceedings of the Latin American conference on Human-computer interaction
    August 2003
    296 pages
    ISBN:9781450343244
    DOI:10.1145/944519

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