TEI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2010
ACM
Since commercial musical recordings became available about a century ago and until very recently, they had always been distributed by means of a physical support. Nowadays that re...
TEI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2010
ACM
An assumption behind much work on the use of tangibles for learning is that there are individual cognitive benefits related to the physical manipulation of materials. However, pr...
TEI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2010
ACM
While pervasive technologies explore new gaming styles, traditional games, such as cards and tabletop games are still appealing and have various irreplaceable flavors. We point ou...
TEI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2010
ACM
“Light bodies” are mobile and portable, hand-held lights that respond to audio and vibration input. The motivation to build these devices is grounded in a historical reinterpr...
TEI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2010
ACM
In this paper, we present a tiled display system made out of hexagonal cardboard screens with no visible bezel. Use of a bezel-less hexagonal form factor allows users to build lar...
TEI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2010
ACM
Collaborative pretend play is significant in the emotional and social development of young children yet traditional remote communication systems do not support this type of intera...
TEI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2010
ACM
“Programmable bricks” are microcontroller-based devices that can be used in various educational projects, such as robotic prototypes, environmental sensing, and interactive ar...
TEI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2010
ACM
In current healthcare research, pain logs are an important means to measure the impact of medication and to detect pain patterns. However, the entry of textual pain data may be ne...
TEI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2010
ACM
We introduce Whack Gestures, an inexact and inattentive interaction technique. This approach seeks to provide a simple means to interact with devices with minimal attention from t...
TEI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2010
ACM
SMS messages provide an easy and simple method to communicate with others. These short messages are useful, but can sometimes feel restricted due to the limitations of textual com...