Autonomous behaviour in tangible user interfaces as a design factor.

ABSTRACTIn this paper I want to express my ideas of using autonomous behaviour in Tangible User Interfaces to create a compelling and new kind of interaction between humans and computers. I motivate this approach by reviewing related research, which indicates that people are fascinated by autonomous tangible objects and apply rules of social behaviours towards these objects. The intention is to gain from this effect to leverage human-computer interaction. The idea is not necessary to improve the user performance or results, but to create a more believable and enjoyable smart object interaction. In this work I try to find key concepts and characteristics which are important while designing and implementing such systems.