Touch me interaction paradigm for physically browsing personal learning spaces

The prevalent visions of ambient intelligence leverage natural interaction between user and available services in a learning space. In this pursuit, we present a framework for augmenting physical objects with annotated information in order to improve physical browsing. The proposed system incorporates an intuitive camera based annotation scheme to catalog and author information about the physical learning objects in an environment. Each annotated data is encoded in such a way that they provide access points for available information or services about the physical objects. The system uses adequate visual cues and provides tactile feedback in order to leverage the touch-based interactions with the objects. These real world interaction techniques with the physical environment and seamless virtual learning information acquisition make the system transparent from the young learners and help them to become engaged in their learning activities.