Tangible Interface Design
A quick course/tutorial on designing Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs). This course will introduce you to the concept of tangible interfaces and allow you to rapidly design and prototype a tangible interface of your own.
Results from this tutorial
What this course will involve...
The course will run over 5 weeks at one hour per week. Full details for each week will be given nearer the time!
Week 1: introduction to tangibles
Week 2: how to rapidly prototype tangible interfaces using foamboard, paper & duct-tape
Week 3: design session (what fun things can you do with a TUI - music, games etc) + start looking into the programming side of things
Week 4: building & programming (we will most likely be using ReacTIVision for tracking physical objects and Processing for making stuff happen, though you can program in any language of your choice)
Week 5: building & programming & quick video of work
Links
- Description of Tangible Interfaces on Wikipedia.
Videos
Code
The code from the number-game project can be downloaded here. Please remember that this was hacked together within a couple of hours, so is a touch messy!
