1. Do Tangible Interfaces Enhance Learning?
Paper by paul marshall from open university
Presentation by Michael hudgins

2. Possible Learning Benefits
Playful learning for children
Physical action and digital effects – increased engagement and reflection
More natural and familiar than other interfaces
More accessible to young children or people with learning or physical disabilities

3. Typical Learning Domains
Spatiality
Examples
Color mixing
Story narratives
Molecule modeling
Programming
Further research
Objects have many more properties – mass, texture, temperature, malleability

4. Reference Do tangible interfaces enhance learning? by Paul Marshall
Department of Computing, Open University
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK