Exploring physicality in interaction

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We are physical beings. We evolved through interaction with natural physical surroundings and elements and much of our experience relies on physical objects and environments. Computers on the other hand were designed initially as abstract generic machines that crunch numbers and do not have direct physical function or meaningful physical form. An important effort in current human-computer interaction research attempts to bring computers closer to our physical reality by allowing them to exploit the users' physical environments as well as humans' innate and learned physical abilities. I explore how humans interact with physical environments, entities and artefacts, I implement these lessons in the form of physical computer interfaces and evaluate how these interfaces affect user interactive experience and behaviour and which lessons can be learned for future interaction design.