• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.9-16
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• 2008

The design and implementation of the interaction for tangible user interfaces require in-depth knowledge in many different disciplines, such as device control, sensing and calibrating devices, interaction design, low-level programming, and performance tuning. Many trial and error iterations are needed to determine the proper combination of the interaction techniques while using available interaction devices and considering the characteristics of contents. As a result, it takes too much effort and time to achieve maximum usability. This paper introduces a tangible user-interface platform, which is fabricated using various hardware devices and an XML-based authoring tool, which is developed in order to relieve content creators of the burden of the above difficulties. Finally, we demonstrate our work by illustrating some example contents.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.437-439
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• 2002

Tangible user interfaces have attracted strong attention in the HCI(Human and Computer Interface) community for their ability to take advantage of skills humans develop in the real world. We are developing "tangible media aided design system" which employs physical objects i.e., brick as interfacing media for 3D graphic modeling. This system is targeting for persons who are afraid of experiencing 3D graphic modeling and virtual space, or have a sense of reluctance in approaching to them. Our approach suggests the easiest way for people to experience computer system and virtual space carefree while developing and improving their space sense. This work is one of initial explorations of media aided design system using tangible user interfaces.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.13-21
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• 2013

Recently, programming education is being actively performed in education field with development of educational programming language and teaching and learning methods for elementary students. However, programming education have limit to apply to the overall computer science curriculum, because it is performed by more than 5th grade and focused on the utilization of programming tools than problem-solving process. It is necessary to expand the range of students and educational content considered with problem-solving process for encouraging programming education in computer science. In this study, we suggest the easy-to-use programming tool for lower grade(1st grade) and robot programming task based on improvement of student's thinking ability. We use Tangible User Interface(TUI) for elementary student's(1st grade) convenience of programming and developed the robot programming task for improvement of logical thinking. As a result of this experiment, tangible programming tool can be used easily in elementary students(1st grade) and developed robot programming task is effective in improvement of logical thinking.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.226-230
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• 2007

In the conventional desktop PC environment, keyboard and mouse are used to process the user input and monitor displays the visual information as an output device. In order to manipulate the digital information, we move the virtual cursor to select the desired graphical icon on the monitor The cursor represents the relative motion of the physical mouse on the desk. This desktop metaphor does not provide intuitive interface through human sensation. In this paper, we introduce a novel tangible interface which allows the user to interact with computers using a physical tool called "Smartpuck". SmartPuck system bridges the gap between analog perception and response in human being and digital information on the computer. The system consists of table display based on a PDP, SmartPuck equipped with rotational part and button for the user's intuitive and tactile input, and a sensing system to track the position of SmartPuck. Finally, we will show examples working with the system.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.65-72
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• 2011

Multi-touch display system has recently attracted world wide attention due to easy accessibility to the various interactive media without any specialized equipments. Especially, Microsoft Sphere(R) shows a considerable promise in treating non-fiat multi-touch display. The distinctive feature of the system is a stable multi-touch interaction on a spherical display. To extend the possibility of the interactions to the more various display surfaces, this paper propose a multi-touch interaction system in the circumstance of the irregular convex surface. The proposed method can be used efficiently in various tangible interface, for example, the interactive diorama system at the exhibition or the tangible arcade game.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.453-463
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• 2014

Objective:The purpose of this study is to identify motion patterns for cellular phone and propose a method to identify motion patterns using a motion capture system. Background: In a smart device, the introduction of tangible interaction that can provide new experience to user plays an important role for improving user's emotional satisfaction. Firstly, user's motion patterns have to be identified to provide an interaction type using user's gesture or motion. Method: In this study, a method to identify motion patterns using a motion capture system and user's motion patterns for using cellular phone was studied. Twenty-two subjects participated in this study. User's motion patterns were identified through motion analysis. Results: Typical motion patterns for shaking, shaking left and right, shaking up and down, and turning for using cellular phone were identified. Velocity and acceleration for each typical motion pattern were identified, too. Conclusion: A motion capture system could be effectively used to identify user's motion patterns for using cellular phone. Application: Typical motion patterns can be used to develop a tangible user interface for handheld device such as smart phone and a method to identify motion patterns using motion analysis can be applied in motion patterns identification of smart device.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.1787-1794
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• 2009

In this paper, the author proposes a tangible electronic dice which can be used for IPTV games for familiy meeting in living room and prevents game addiction of young children. The tangible electronic dice was designed to be as similar to traditional dices as possible in order for people to operate the tangible electronic dice with direct and intuitive manipulation. The proposed tangible electronic dice is self-contained so that no external devices are needed. The experiments show that the dice can be effectively applied to games running in PC and IPTV environments. The author will verify the practicality of the dice by applying the dice to IPTV games which are currently being developed.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.626-631
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• 2006

가상현실 시스템에서의 가장 기본적인 상호작용은 사용자가 원하는 위치와 방향으로 시야를 이동하는 네비게이션이다. 기존의 관련 연구들은 가상환경 네비게이션의 고전적인 문제인 'lost-in-cyberspace'에 대한 명확한 해결책을 제시하지 못하고 있다. 또한, 직관적이고 사용방법이 쉬운 상호작용에 대한 연구가 충분히 이루어지지 않았다. 본 논문에서는 증강현실 기반의 감각형 오브젝트를 이용한 네비게이션 인터페이스 시스템과, 사용자의 컨텍스트를 활용한 네비게이션 방법을 제안한다. 테이블의 표면에는 프로젝터를 이용한 후면 영사를 통해 가상환경의 지도와 사용자를 위한 네비게이션 정보가 보여진다. 사용자는 테이블 공간에서 카메라를 이용해 추적되는 감각형 오브젝트를 조작함으로써 가상환경을 네비게이션 할 수 있다. 또한, 사용자의 관심 지역 및 가상공간의 중요 지역 등의 컨텍스트는 사용자의 간단한 오브젝트 조작 정보와 결합되어 이동 경로 생성에 이용된다. 제안된 시스템은 본 연구실에서 제작된 Responsive Multimedia System (RMS) 의 인터페이스 시스템으로 연동되어 실험을 수행하였다. 제안된 시스템 및 네비게이션 기법은 사용자에게 전체 가상환경에 대한 인지력을 향상시키고, 직관적인 인터페이스를 제공하며, 최소한의 조작으로 만족스러운 네비게이션을 제공한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.387-390
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• 2017

최근 현대 사회에 '가상현실'개념이 도입됨에 따라 '가상현실'기술이 적용된 게임 콘텐츠들이 활성화되고 있는 추세이다. 이와 더불어 기존의 GUI와 NIUI에서 발전된 새로운 인터페이스로 텐저블 인터페이스(Tangible Interface)가 급부상하면서 관련 인터페이스를 활용한 연구 또한 필요한 시점이며, 이를 기반으로 하여 '가상현실'기술과 텐저블 인터페이스를 융합한 새로운 게임 콘텐츠를 제안을 하고자 '가상현실' 기기를 활용한 텐저블 인터페이스 기반의 학습용 Unity 3D 게임 콘텐츠를 제작하였다.

• Journal of Game and Entertainment
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.70-74
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• 2006

In this paper I present a system that with infrared vision sense tracks the position and orientation of a wireless object on a tabletop display surface. The system offers two types of improvements over existing computer vision tracking approaches. First, the system tracks an object accurately without susceptibility to changes in lighting conditions. Second, the system tracks not only the orientation but button click state of the object. This system can detect these changes in real time. Finally, I present an application of the system : Color Lab Box.