Collaborative Design in a Tabletop System employing Tangible User Interfaces

摘要

Tabletop systems including novel user interfaces provide an effective platform for design collaboration. This research studied the effects of a tabletop system with tangible user interfaces on designers'' spatial cognition and design communication in collaborative design. The empirical results reveal that the use of TUIs changed designers'' spatial cognition, and that these changes affected the design process by increasing characteristics associated with creative design processes.