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Employing Blended Interaction to Blend the Qualities of Digital and Physical Books / Anwendung von Blended Interaction zur Vermischung der Eigenschaften digitaler und physischer Bücher

Employing Blended Interaction to Blend the Qualities of Digital and Physical Books / Anwendung... SummaryThis paper presents Integrative Workplace, a system which blends the qualities of digital and physical sources by augmenting physical books with properties of digital books and vice versa. On the base of Blended Interaction, we designed a system which helps users to interact with the new and unfamiliar functionality of digitally augmented books. In a user study, law students employed Integrative Workplace to work on a legal case. The positive feedback of participants indicated that we managed to design a system which is usable in a professional context. Furthermore, the study revealed evidence that digitally well-established concepts are a part of users’ reality and need to be considered in the design of new user interfaces. The results of this user study encourage us to continue to use Blended Interaction in the design process of novel user interfaces with an unfamiliar functionality. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png i-com de Gruyter

Employing Blended Interaction to Blend the Qualities of Digital and Physical Books / Anwendung von Blended Interaction zur Vermischung der Eigenschaften digitaler und physischer Bücher

i-com , Volume 13 (3): 7 – Dec 1, 2014

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Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
© 2014 Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH, Rosenheimer Str. 145, 81671 München
ISSN
2196-6826
eISSN
2196-6826
DOI
10.1515/icom.2014.0028
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Abstract

SummaryThis paper presents Integrative Workplace, a system which blends the qualities of digital and physical sources by augmenting physical books with properties of digital books and vice versa. On the base of Blended Interaction, we designed a system which helps users to interact with the new and unfamiliar functionality of digitally augmented books. In a user study, law students employed Integrative Workplace to work on a legal case. The positive feedback of participants indicated that we managed to design a system which is usable in a professional context. Furthermore, the study revealed evidence that digitally well-established concepts are a part of users’ reality and need to be considered in the design of new user interfaces. The results of this user study encourage us to continue to use Blended Interaction in the design process of novel user interfaces with an unfamiliar functionality.

Journal

i-comde Gruyter

Published: Dec 1, 2014

Keywords: Blended Interaction; Ubiquitous Computing; Well-established Digital Concepts; Augmented Tabletop

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