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Interpretative interfaces
A CHI workshop paper proposing tangible interaction metaphors as alternatives to the chat paradigm. Physical and spatial interaction models offer richer interpretative possibilities than conversational turn-taking.
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Tangible interaction metaphors as alternatives to chat. Benabdallah draws on the tradition of tangible and embodied computing to argue that physical and spatial metaphors offer richer interpretative possibilities than the chat box: they allow for ambiguity, partial specification, and meaning that emerges from doing rather than saying.
Published 2026 at CHI workshop.