Phidgets: easy development of physical interfaces through physical widgets (2001)
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| Venue: | In UIST ’01: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology |
| Citations: | 171 - 21 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Greenberg01phidgets:easy,
author = {Saul Greenberg and Chester Fitchett},
title = {Phidgets: easy development of physical interfaces through physical widgets},
booktitle = {In UIST ’01: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology},
year = {2001},
pages = {209--218},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}
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Abstract
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.
