Tangible user interfaces provide a powerful and intuitive means of interact- ing with digital information, creating a seamless connection between the cyberspace of ‘bits’ and the physical world of ‘atoms’. Finally, we discuss the strengths and limitations of TUIs and chart directions for future research. Methods and technologies for designing, building, and evaluating TUIs are also addressed. We also discuss conceptual foundations of TUIs including perspectives from cognitive sciences, psychology, and philosophy. We then present TUIs in a broader context, survey application domains, and review frameworks and taxonomies. We start by sketching the history of tangible user interfaces, examining the intellectual origins of this field. This monograph examines the existing body of work on Tangible User Interfaces. However, TUI research is still in its infancy and extensive research is required in order to fully understand the implications of tangible user interfaces, to develop technologies that further bridge the digital and the physical, and to guide TUI design with empirical knowledge.
Drawing upon users’ knowledge and skills of interaction with the real non-digital world, TUIs show a potential to enhance the way in which people interact with and leverage digital information. In the last two decades, Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) have emerged as a new interface type that interlinks the digital and physical worlds.
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