TangiBoard: a toolkit to reduce the implementation burden of Tangible User Interfaces in education
Conference paper
Attard, G., De Raffaele, C. and Smith, S. 2019. TangiBoard: a toolkit to reduce the implementation burden of Tangible User Interfaces in education. The 13th IEEE International Conference Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT 2019). Baku, Azerbaijan 23 - 25 Oct 2019 IEEE. pp. 1-7 https://doi.org/10.1109/AICT47866.2019.8981773
Type | Conference paper |
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Title | TangiBoard: a toolkit to reduce the implementation burden of Tangible User Interfaces in education |
Authors | Attard, G., De Raffaele, C. and Smith, S. |
Abstract | The use of Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) as an educational technology has gained sustained interest over the years with common agreement on its innate ability to engage and intrigue students in active-learning pedagogies. Whilst encouraging results have been obtained in research, the widespread adoption of TUI architectures is still hindered by a myriad of implementation burdens imposed by current toolkits. To this end, this paper presents an innovative TUI toolkit: TangiBoard, which enables the deployment of an interactive TUI system using low-cost, and presently available educational technology. Apart from curtailing setup costs and technical expertise required for adopting TUI systems, the toolkit provides an application framework to facilitate system calibration and development integration with GUI applications. This is enabled by a robust computer vision application that tracks a contributed passive marker set providing a range of tangible interactions to TUI frameworks. The effectiveness of this toolkit was evaluated by computer systems developers with respect to alternate toolkits for TUI design. Open-source versions of the TangiBoard toolkit together with marker sets are provided online through research license |
Keywords | Tangible User Interface; TUI toolkit; Computer aided instruction; Higher Education |
Conference | The 13th IEEE International Conference Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT 2019) |
Page range | 1-7 |
Proceedings Title | 2019 IEEE 13th International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT) |
Series | International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies |
ISSN | 2378-8232 |
Electronic | 2472-8586 |
ISBN | |
Electronic | 9781728139029 |
Paperback | 9781728139036 |
Publisher | IEEE |
Publication dates | |
23 Oct 2019 | |
Online | 06 Jan 2020 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 25 Sep 2019 |
Accepted | 17 Jul 2019 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Copyright Statement | © 2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1109/AICT47866.2019.8981773 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:000550258900051 |
Web address (URL) of conference proceedings | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8966545/proceeding |
Language | English |
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