An Exploratory Study on the Effects of Multimodal Feedback in Bimanual Interaction with Active Tangible

This thesis is the product of more than 6 months of learning, exploring, and experimenting at TNO. But besides being the final deliverable of my graduation project, this thesis also symbolizes the (probable) end of my entire educational career. Over 20 years of learning, exploring, and experimenting, all starting off on the playgrounds: Little Christian, playing with blocks. Via primary and secondary school, I ended up in Eindhoven at the Department of Industrial Design, where I discovered my interests in the human factors of innovative product design. However, I was looking for more structured academic depth. Choosing the Human Technology Interaction Master was therefore a logical next step, and it turned out to be a great choice. My educational career continued and it has brought me to the metropoles of Singapore, Jakarta, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Stockholm, and last but not least, Soesterberg, where I ended up at TNO's 'playground'…indeed, playing with blocks. Speaking of Innovation.. Looking back, I can say that I enjoyed all HTI aspects; all courses and projects as well as the studytour to Argentina, the international semester in Stockholm and the graduation project at TNO. For this, I have to thank all HTI students (of which some have become good friends) and teachers; Antal Haans and Wijnand IJsselsteijn in particular for supervising me and giving me valuable new insights and feedback throughout the project. Besides them, I would like thank all TNO colleagues for their help and for providing such an interesting and fun experience. In particular, I would like to thank Arnoud de Jong for developing the software for my experiments, Koos Meijer for doing lots of prework with the Sensators, Martijn van den Heuvel for repeatedly pointing out the huge benefits of the Sensators to me, but also for making me think about the real important questions in life, and Tinka Giele for making me think about the important questions with regard to the project…and for the coffee, obviously. Last but not least, I really want to thank my TNO supervisor Joris Janssen for being supportive all the time, even when we both did not have a clue of what to do with those stupid blocks. Thanks to your interest, ideas, critical questions, and dedication to the project, I left all of our weekly meetings with newfound motivation and inspiration. Furthermore, I want to thank my parents for supporting me and also for …