Extending the Design Space of Tangible Objects via Low-Resolution Edge Displays

Ahmed Sabbir Arif, Brien East, Sean DeLong, Roozbeh Manshaei, Apurva Gupta, Manasvi Lalwani, Ali Mazalek
2017 Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction - TEI '17  
We developed a custom tangible that uses LED arrays around the edges as a low-resolution display to provide real-time visual feedback on the current state of the system. We developed a guideline for mapping different types of edge feedback to different tangible interactions. We evaluated its effectiveness in an informal user study where users interacted with a tabletop and tangible system with the edge feedback enabled. Results suggest that edge feedback provides a better understanding of the system.
doi:10.1145/3024969.3025078 dblp:conf/tei/ArifEDMGLM17 fatcat:auiextgmnve67phib6tflrv7ue