Supplementary Material for "Embodied Social Networking with Gesture-enabled Tangible Active Objects"

<img src="https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/2696631/2702772" width="200" style="float:right;"> In this paper we present a novel approach for Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) which incorporate small mobile platforms to actuate Tangible User Interface Objects (TUIOs). We propose an application of Tangible Active Objects (TAOs) in combination with gestural interaction for social networking. TUIOs represent messages while gestural input using these objects is used for triggering actions with these messages. We conducted a case study and present the results. We demonstrate interaction with a working social networking client.

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