Publication
Analysing the Effect of Tangibile User Interfaces on Spatial Memory
Markus Löchtefeld; Frederik Wiehr; Sven Gehring
In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Spatial User Interaction. ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI-2017), October 16-17, Brighton, United Kingdom, Pages 78-81, ISBN 978-1-4503-5486-8, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2017.
Abstract
Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) allow for effective and easy interaction
with digital information by encapsulating them into a physical
form. Especially in combination with interactive surfaces, TUIs
have been studied in a variety of forms and application cases. By
taking advantage of the human abilities to grasp and manipulate
they ease collaboration and learning. In this paper we study the
effects of TUIs on spatial memory. In our study we compare participants’
performance of recalling positions of buildings that they
priorly placed on an interactive tabletop either using a TUI or a
touch-based GUI. While 83,3% of the participants reported in their
self assessment that they performed better in recalling the positions
when using the GUI our results show that participants were on an
average 24.5% more accurate when using the TUI.