Communications of the ACM
Interactive sketching for the early stages of user interface design
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Practical education for improving software usability
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Usability problem identification using both low- and high-fidelity prototypes
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
DENIM: finding a tighter fit between tools and practice for Web site design
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Phidgets: easy development of physical interfaces through physical widgets
Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
A Compact, Wireless, Self-Powered Pushbutton Controller
UbiComp '01 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Designing for usability—key principles and what designers think
CHI '83 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The calder toolkit: wired and wireless components for rapidly prototyping interactive devices
DIS '04 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques
UIST '06 Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Reflective physical prototyping through integrated design, test, and analysis
UIST '06 Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The anatomy of prototypes: Prototypes as filters, prototypes as manifestations of design ideas
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
Tangible User Interfaces: Past, Present, and Future Directions
Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction
ICVR'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Virtual reality
Which prototype to augment? a retrospective case study on industrial and user interface design
ICVR'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Virtual reality
Kinetic art and embedded systems: a natural collaboration
Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Sketching interactive systems with sketchify
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
A rapid prototyping tool for interactive device development
HCII'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction: design and development approaches - Volume Part I
Procedings of the Second Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design
.NET gadgeteer: a platform for custom devices
Pervasive'12 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Pervasive Computing
Midas: fabricating custom capacitive touch sensors to prototype interactive objects
Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Experiences from a decade of TinyOS development
OSDI'12 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
WorldKit: rapid and easy creation of ad-hoc interactive applications on everyday surfaces
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Paperbox: a toolkit for exploring tangible interaction on interactive surfaces
Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition
Rapid prototyping of outdoor games for children in an iterative design process
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Sauron: embedded single-camera sensing of printed physical user interfaces
Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Merging tangible buttons and spatial augmented reality to support ubiquitous prototype designs
AUIC '12 Proceedings of the Thirteenth Australasian User Interface Conference - Volume 126
Five key challenges in end-user development for tangible and embodied interaction
Proceedings of the 15th ACM on International conference on multimodal interaction
Adding input controls and sensors to RFID tags to support dynamic tangible user interfaces
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction
Advanced cardboard modeling: exploring the aesthetics of the third way
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction
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The current practice used in the design of physical interactive products (such as handheld devices), often suffers from a divide between exploration of form and exploration of interactivity. This can be attributed, in part, to the fact that working prototypes are typically expensive, take a long time to manufacture, and require specialized skills and tools not commonly available in design studios.We have designed a prototyping tool that, we believe, can significantly reduce this divide. The tool allows designers to rapidly create functioning, interactive, physical prototypes early in the design process using a collection of wireless input components (buttons, sliders, etc.) and a sketch of form. The input components communicate with Macromedia Director to enable interactivity.We believe that this tool can improve the design practice by: a) Improving the designer's ability to explore both the form and interactivity of the product early in the design process, b) Improving the designer's ability to detect problems that emerge from the combination of the form and the interactivity, c) Improving users' ability to communicate their ideas, needs, frustrations and desires, and d) Improving the client's understanding of the proposed design, resulting in greater involvement and support for the design.