TangiBoard: a toolkit to reduce the implementation burden of Tangible User Interfaces in education

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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
TypeConference paper
TitleTangiBoard: a toolkit to reduce the implementation burden of Tangible User Interfaces in education
AuthorsAttard, 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

KeywordsTangible User Interface; TUI toolkit; Computer aided instruction; Higher Education
ConferenceThe 13th IEEE International Conference Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT 2019)
Page range1-7
Proceedings Title2019 IEEE 13th International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT)
SeriesInternational Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies
ISSN2378-8232
Electronic2472-8586
ISBN
Electronic9781728139029
Paperback9781728139036
PublisherIEEE
Publication dates
Print23 Oct 2019
Online06 Jan 2020
Publication process dates
Deposited25 Sep 2019
Accepted17 Jul 2019
Output statusPublished
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