• Tangible Creativity: The impact of tangible computing on creative cognition
  • The development of new interaction technology that affords tangible and gesture interaction has an impact on cognition. We explore the relationships between tangible interaction and creative cognition and propose the use of interactive cubes as an alternative to a keyboard for creative composition tasks.
  • Digital Interactive Keys: A prototype for the DINKS interaction model
  • Digital Interactive Keys (DI N K S ): a design that takes advantage of the affordances of handheld interactive objects as a complement to touch screens for creative composition. This design enables tangible interaction with elements of a composition along with a larger touch sensitive display for interacting with the whole composition. We describe design precedents and their affordances for combining smaller physical elements with larger display devices and show how this design is unique in using handheld interactive objects for spatial exploration of elements in a composition that is synthesized on a touch screen.