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Acknowledgments

This book is a reflection on our collaboration with many colleagues whose views and ideas are tightly woven within our understanding of tangible and gesture interaction. After many years of collaboration, it is hard to untangle our thoughts from the engaging discussions about tangible and gesture interaction. We acknowledge our colleagues here as an integral part of our ability to produce this book. Our understanding of tangible interaction design and our design examples, Tangible Keyboard and Tangible Models, were influenced by Tim Clausner, Mijeong Kim, Alberto Gonzalez, and Kaz Grace. Our understanding of gesture interaction design and our design examples, walk-up-and-use information display and the willful marionette, were influenced by collaboration with our artists in residence, Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault, and our colleagues Kaz Grace and Mohammad Mahzoon. Lilla and Bill are the artisits that imagined, created, and built the willful marionette.

Completing this book was possible only with the patience of our families. Our special thanks go to the babies born during this writing project and the many sleepless nights we experienced. We particularly acknowledge the birth of Jessica, Kei, Iris, Matthew, and Erin during the time we were writing this book.

The tangible interaction research reported in this book was partially supported by NSF Grant IIS-1218160: HCC: Small: Designing Tangible Computing for Creativity. The artist-in-residence program that enabled our contribution to the willful marionette was supported by the College of Computing and Informatics and the College of Arts and Architecture at UNC Charlotte. We acknowledge the support of the College of Computing and Informatics at UNC Charlotte for funding graduate students and equipment in the InDe Lab.

Mary Lou Maher and Lina Lee

January 2017