Research project: "Tangible Interaction Design"
Goal
The overall objective of this meta-projetct is to augment or develop smart ecosystems for different actors. It consists of the following subprojects:
- Smart Objects for Active Ageing (SOfAA) aims at designing smart ecosystems for elderly people;
- Gamified Objects for Speech Therapy (GOST) aimed at designing smart objects for social interactions, for children and people with auditory impairments;
- Gamified Probes for Health (GAPH) aimed at ideating smart objects for canteen environments, for university students and other students;
- Design and Programming of Interaction for Schools (Prodi) aims at bringing the design and making of smart interactive objects and computational thinking into schools, for educators and related stakeholders.
Objectives
To achieve the goals, all the aforementioned projects pursue the following objectives (differently instantiated, according to the specific project):
- context of use analysis, and modelling of personas and context scenarios;
- ideation, conceptualisation and rapid prototyping of smart ecosystems/objects;
- studies for evaluating ecosystems/solutions, e.g., small-scale usability studies with the intended users, expert-based evaluations, field studies/actions with users.
Topics
- Smart ecosystem
- Internet of Things
- Interaction Design
- Tangible Interaction
- Physical Computing
- Smart Schools
Key technologies
- Interaction Design
- Tangible Design with technologies and tools such as Arduino and Rasperry Pi
Applications
Any ecosystem that can be enhanced with interactive smart solutions
Contacts
, 
web site)Rosella Gennari is a researcher with a fixed-term contract at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Find out more about her checking out his website.
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, web site)Alessandra Melonio is an assistant researcher at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Find out more about her checking out his website.
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Category
Human computer interaction
Type
Research project
