Are Tangibles Really Better?: Keyboard and Joystick Outperform TUIs for Remote Robotic Locomotion Control

Prior work has suggested that tangible user interfaces (TUIs) may be more natural and easier to learn than conventional interfaces. We present study results that suggest an opposite effect: we found user performance, satisfaction, and ease of use to be higher with more common-place input methods (keyboard and joystick) than two novel TUIs.