Paper Info
Title
Evaluating the embodiment benefits of a paper-based tui for educational simulations
Abstract
Many claims have been made regarding the potential benefits of Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs). Presented here is an experiment assessing the usability, problem solving, and collaboration benefits of a TUI for direct placement tasks in spatially-explicit simulations for environmental science education. To create a low-cost deployment for single-computer classrooms, the TUI uses a webcam and computer vision to recognize the placement of paper symbols on a map. An authentic green infrastructure urban planning problem was used as the task for a within-subjects with rotation experiment with 20 pairs of participants. Because no prior experimental study has isolated the influence of the embodied nature of the TUI on usability, problem solving, and collaboration, a control condition was designed to highlight the impact of embodiment. While this study did not establish the usability benefits suggested by prior research, certain problem solving and collaboration advantages were measured.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1979742.1979777
CHI Extended Abstracts
Keywords
Field
DocType
tangible user interfaces,educational simulation,prior research,certain problem,collaboration benefit,paper-based tui,urban planning problem,usability benefit,prior experimental study,direct placement task,embodiment benefit,rotation experiment,collaboration advantage,environmental science,computer vision,urban planning
Software deployment,Computer science,Usability,Embodied cognition,Human–computer interaction,Urban planning,User interface,Multimedia,Green infrastructure
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.54
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tia Shelley1152.51
Leilah Lyons213919.89
Moira Zellner3665.98
Emily Minor4121.71