The boundaries between ‘the digital’ and our everyday physical world are dissolving as we develop more physical ways of interacting with computing. This forum presents some of the topics discussed in the colorful multidisciplinary field of tangible and embodied interaction.

Eva Hornecker, Editor
Supporting Interaction Through
Haptic Feedback in Automotive
User Interfaces
Dagmar Kern

Bertrandt Ingenieurbuero GmbH | [e-mail]

Bastian Pfleging

VIS, University of Stuttgart | [e-mail]

Driving a car today is becoming
much like interacting with a mobile
computer in a moving environment.
Due to the rapid development of
sensor technologies and mobile ser-
vices, the car has already become a
space for media consumption, and
even acts as a moving office. The car
today is far more than what it was
in the early days: a simple means
of transportation. But maneuver-
ing a car has been, and probably
always will be, a highly visual
task—at least until the introduction
of autonomous driving. The driver
must observe the outside environ-
ment and check driving-related
information such as current speed.

March + April 2013