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Phidgets: easy development of physical interfaces through physical widgets

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UIST '01: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

Pages 209 - 218

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Published: 11 November 2001 Publication History

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Physical widgets or phidgets are to physical user interfaces what widgets are to graphical user interfaces. Similar to widgets, phidgets abstract and package input and output devices: they hide implementation and construction details, they expose functionality through a well-defined API, and they have an (optional) on-screen interactive interface for displaying and controlling device state. Unlike widgets, phidgets also require: a connection manager to track how devices appear on-line; a way to link a software phidget with its physical counterpart; and a simulation mode to allow the programmer to develop, debug and test a physical interface even when no physical device is present. Our evaluation shows that everyday programmers using phidgets can rapidly develop physical interfaces.

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Phidgets: easy development of physical interfaces through physical widgets
1. Human-centered computing
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    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
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DOI:10.1145/502348

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