The objective of this workshop is to give a space to the participants interested in working with TUIs to learn, analyze, discuss and identify features about TUIs. This objective is also linked with the collaborative group TANGINT.FR which will lead to an automated classification of TUIs based on the information collected with the online tool.
IMPACT FOR THE HCI COMMUNITY The characterization of TUIs is important for the HCI community because after this workshop the participants will be capable of:
Easily locate the main characteristics for the development of a new TUI, according to the objectives of their projects, Thoroughly analyze the elements of a TUI for using/adapting in new projects and
To decompose a TUI in its essential elements.
All these skills developed during the workshop give some benefits to the community as: the researchers can address this question to develop their practical understanding of how to tackle the complexity of developing/using a TUI and researchers can benefit from using a tool to characterize and storage their TUIs. All the community will benefit from the workshop by freely accessing the collected information on the website of the tool.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULING The workshop will be articulated in the following phases: • • • •
Introduction to the workshop and explanation of the characterization (about 35 minutes) Recapitulation of tangible interfaces to be characterized (about 15 minutes) First brainstorming and working in the characterization tool (about 1h30 minutes) Tangible interface presentations and discussion (about 40 minutes) 2.
Interaction Tangible, TANGINT/FR ; IHM’16; http://ihm2016.afihm.org/#!/gt-interaction-tangible.