Tangible Light: Back to Metaphor-Based Interaction

In this paper we present Tangible light, a simple tangible interface that use behavioral and emotional metaphor to convey meaning in its interaction design. Our purpose is to take advantage of natural physical metaphor to achieve a heightened legibility and seamlessness of interaction between people and information. At the same time we attempts to make control system invisible with embedded sensors. Advances in sensor technology have provided novel approach for user to interact with daily used technical device. Rather than issuing commands to a object via multi-purpose and abstract buttons the way is designed for more nuanced and application-specific approaches. So here we explore the coupling of emotion and action in an interface designed for metaphor and simplicity while manipulate lights as an instance.