Good visual perception skills are important in the effective manipulation of Tangible User Interfaces. This paper reports on the application of a test set researchers have developed specifically to quantify the visual perception skills of children when matching a physical object to its flat representation on paper. A pilot evaluation, with two groups of children from differing socio-economic backgrounds, was conducted to quantify their ability to make the mental transformation from tangible objects to the drawings that represent those objects. The test instrument is described. Researchers found a marked difference between the two groups in their ability to make the transformation.
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Smith, AC. 2009. Visual perception skills testing: preliminary results. 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction: TEI'09, Cambridge, UK, 16-18 February 2009, pp 207-208
Smith, A. C. (2009). Visual perception skills testing: preliminary results. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3658
Smith, Andrew C. "Visual perception skills testing: preliminary results." (2009): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3658