Tangible bits: towards seamless interfaces between people, bits and atoms
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
Affordance, conventions, and design
interactions
Navigational blocks: tangible navigation of digital information
CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A cube to learn: a tangible user interface for the design of a learning appliance
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
The search wall: tangible information searching for children in public libraries
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction
Hands on what?: comparing children's mouse-based and tangible-based interaction
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Lali: exploring a tangible interface for augmented play for preschoolers
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Exploring the relations between physical objects and digital world with a geometric sorting board
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCHI Italian Chapter International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Facing Complexity
Metaphor modelling for tangible interfaces evaluation
Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
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This work is part of a research targeted at experimenting the use of physical artifacts for the retrieval of multimedia information. Tangible interfaces --- that couple physical artifacts to digital data --- are described in different research works, and a number of studies focus on tangibles for children. In spite of that, most of the work done for the kids is related to gaming or learning. This work is focused on a less explored domain, that of the access to information systems. We propose a tangible interface for enabling preschoolers to query and navigate multimedia information. The approach was tested with a class of 27 preschoolers, that where engaged in a game with the magical objects of the wizard Zurlino. The experiment gave us interesting insights about the suitability of the system for preschool children, its ease of use and the need for support by educators.