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Navigating the Human Body

Tangible interfaces have the potential to produce common artifacts to improve collaboration, ease learning for non-expert users and ease 3D navigation. We have developed two physical devices for navigating a 3D virtual model of the human body aimed at school children. Results from a user study show that a tangible interface can be useful for encouraging collaboration, improving the learnability of a navigational interface as well as for personalizing human slice data.


 

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The project team included myself, De Guzman, F. Wai-ling Ho-Ching, and Tye Rattenbury. This project started in September 2002 for the Design Realization course project. Design Realization is the pilot class for the new Berkeley Institute of Design. There are two paper links below: one to the short paper published in CHI 2003 and one to the final paper submission for the design course (not published).
Publications

Edward Deguzman, F. Wai-ling Ho-Ching, Tara Matthews, Tye Rattenbury, Maribeth Back, Steve Harrison, (2003), "EEWWW!: Tangible Instruments for Navigating into the Human Body," In Extended Abstracts of CHI 2003. p. 806-807.

Edward Deguzman, F. Wai-ling Ho-Ching, Tara Matthews, Tye Rattenbury, Maribeth Back, Steve Harrison, (2002), "EEWWW!: Tangible Instruments for Navigating into the Human Body," Design Realization Course Full Paper.

Presentations

F. Wai-ling Ho-Ching and Tara Matthews. "EEWWW!: Tangible Instruments for Navigating into the Human Body." CHI 2003. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (ppt | pdf)

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