This document provides a short introduction to Tangible User Interfaces (TUI). It discusses the evolution of interfaces from Command Line User Interfaces (CUI) which require remembering and typing commands to Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) which use seeing, pointing and clicking. TUI provides an interface where people interact with digital information through physical objects and environments, giving physical form to digital information and making bits directly manipulable. Examples of TUI include the daily stack, augmented urban planning models, and Microsoft Surface.

1. a short introduction to
Tangible User Interfaces
(TUI)

2. evolution of interfaces

3. evolution of interfaces
Command Line User Interfaces (CUI)
“Remember and Type”

4. evolution of interfaces
Command Line User Interfaces (CUI)
“Remember and Type”
Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)
“See, Point and Click”

5. graphical user interfaces (gui)
Standard paradigm of HCI
Interactions with pixels on GUI screens are
inconsistent with our interactions with the rest
of the physical environment.

6. evolution of interfaces
Command Line User Interfaces (CUI)
“Remember and Type”
Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)
“See, Point and Click”
Tangible User Interfaces (TUI)

7. tangible user interfaces (tui)
An interface in which a person interacts with
digital information through the physical
environment.
Tangible Bits: Physical form to digital
information, making bits directly manipulable
and perceptible

8. tangible user interfaces (tui)
daily stack
vimeo.com/10458491
augmented urban model
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8a4SCKIywE
microsoft surface
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VfpVYYQzHs&feature=related