Week 5

This week I played around with a screen I just got from Adafruit that changes opacity based on the amount of voltage. I adapted a circuit and code that is meant to dim an LED with a potentiometer and it worked!

  • Getting Down to Details: Using Theories of Cognition and Learning to Inform Tangible User Interface Design (Journal Link, Drive)

  • Seven Principles to Design Embodied Sensemaking [Video][Paper]

TUI: Tangible User Interface Design

Creating a framework that applies previous research to future. Cataloguing how and why certain features influence educational outcome. Using Theories of Cognition and Learning to Inform Tangible User Interface Design. Embodied sensemaking: relies on social coordination, the way people react and coordinate with the actions of others in a given moment. The author sets up 7 principles to help designers look at design from multiple different angles.

Research has shown that TUI (tangible user interfaces) can support learning in multiple ways.

Seven Principles:

Social situatedness

  1. Scaffolding

  2. Traces

  3. Interactive imagery

  4. Dialogical system

  5. 1st person perspective

  6. Catalyzing engagement

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