Koen van Boerdonk

TL;DR: In this issue's Works in Progress department, 12 urban computing and mobile device entries that span a wide range of computing and social areas investigate how the authors explore urban spaces, interact with technology in those spaces, and create shared community histories.

TL;DR: This issue's Works in Progress department has 12 urban computing and mobile device entries that span a wide range of computing and social areas and investigate how the authors explore urban spaces, interact with technology in those spaces, and create shared community histories.

TL;DR: Understanding tangible interaction's foundational concepts can lead to systems with direct, integrated, and meaningful data control and representation, as well as inspire new approaches to data management and control.

TL;DR: TouchMeDare is an interactive canvas, which aims to provide an experience when meeting new people, while preventing visual prejudice and lowering potential thresholds, which plays music when touched simultaneously from both sides.

TL;DR: The work discussed in this article followed a design research process in which four concepts were developed and prototyped and an evaluation revealed two types of IO relations differing in functionality and the number of mappings between the user and system actions.