Cooking up real world business applications combining physicality, digitality, and image schemas

  • Authors:
  • Jörn Hurtienne;Johann Habakuk Israel;Katharina Weber

  • Affiliations:
  • ZMMS, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Fraunhofer IPK, Berlin, Germany;FHTW Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Tangible interaction research has opened up new ways to interact with computers and extended our imagination of what is possible with digital systems. However, research on tangible user interfaces (TUI) seems to have lost sight of the everyday situation of the majority of people who still work with standard computer systems. This paper investigates a design process for applying TUI in a GUI dominated domain while preserving the functionality of the traditional systems. We exemplify a user centered design process using (1) image schemas as a meta-language for analysis and design and (2) a systematic function allocation of digital and physical user interface elements. We demonstrate this process in the context of the redesign of an invoice verification and posting system of a German beverage company.