The personalized content services in museums are motivated by the need to enhance the
visitors' experience through recommendations which consider the context of their visit, and …

There have been many research efforts devoted to tangible user interfaces (TUIs), but it has
proven difficult to create a definition or taxonomy that allows us to compare and contrast …

External representations have been shown to play a key role in mediating cognition.
Tangible environments offer the opportunity for novel representational formats and …

Children are one of the largest new user groups of mobile technology--from phones to micro-
laptops to electronic toys. These products are both lauded and criticized, especially when it …

Augmented tabletops can be used to create multi-modal and collaborative environments in
which natural interactions with tangible objects that represent virtual (digital) information can …

This paper presents a study that investigated collaborative activity in a tangible tabletop
environment to support learning about the physics of light. In co-located groups of three …

Personal Experience with Active Cultural Heritage, PEACH, is a large, interdisciplinary
development project that explores the use of novel technologies for physical museum visits …

Teaching children with intellectual disabilities is a big challenge for most parents and
educators. Special education teachers use learning strategies to develop and enhance …

Drawing on the'representation'TUI framework [21], this paper reports a study that
investigated the concept of'representation location'and its effect on interaction and learning …

Tangible Interfaces for Collaborative Learning Environments (TICLE) explores new ways
that multimedia can enhance education without becoming the focus of the educational …