Exploring physicality in interaction

我们是物质的存在。我们通过与自然物理环境和元素的相互作用而进化，我们的大部分体验依赖于物理对象和环境。另一方面，计算机最初被设计成抽象的通用机器，处理数字，没有直接的物理功能或有意义的物理形式。当前人机交互研究中的一项重要努力试图通过允许计算机利用用户的物理环境以及人类与生俱来的和后天获得的物理能力来使计算机更接近我们的物理现实。我探索人类如何与物理环境、实体和人工制品交互，我以物理计算机界面的形式实施这些课程，并评估这些界面如何影响用户交互体验和行为，以及哪些课程可以为未来的交互设计吸取教训。

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.