The Friday Afternoon Project: A Two-Hour VoodooIO Prototyping Exercise

VoodooIO is a new architecture for physical user interfaces, providing interface devices that can be flexibly arranged on an interactive substrate. The architecture supports rapid assembly of physical interfaces and dynamic rearrangement of devices. In this paper we provide an account of a case study in which VoodooIO was used to rapidly build and explore a physical interface to an existing application, Google Earth. The case study gives insight into VoodooIO’s support for rapid prototyping of physical user interface applications.