A tangible interface for controlling robotic toys

1 April 2000

proceedings article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

p. 277-278
https://doi.org/10.1145/633292.633454

Abstract

We present a device for developing simple event-driven programs to control robotic toys. To construct a program, the user connects events to actions to be taken in response to those events. We represent these associations as pictures connected by pieces of physical string. This work is one of our initial explorations of the use of string in tangible user interfaces.

Keywords

TUI
COMPUTATIONAL TOYS
STRING
TANGIBLE USER INTERFACE

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