TEI Lasting Impact Awards

Recognizing papers that have made enduring contributions to the field of Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction.


Please also find statistics from the past 20 years of TEI archival data, compiled by the General Chair of TEI 2026:https://axlab-uofc.github.io/20th-tei-archive/

2016
Snake Charmer: Physically Enabling Virtual Objects

Bruno Araujo, Ricardo Jota, Varun Perumal, Jia Xian Yao, Karan Singh, Daniel Wigdor

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2015
Seven Principles to Design for Embodied Sensemaking

Caroline Hummels, Jelle van Dijk

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2014
jamSheets: Thin Interfaces with Tunable Stiffness Enabled by Layer Jamming

Jifei Ou, Lining Yao, Daniel Tauber, Jürgen Steimle, Ryuma Niiyama, Hiroshi Ishii

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2013
A Design Space for Ephemeral User Interfaces

Tanja Döring, Axel Sylvester, Albrecht Schmidt

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2012
Makey Makey: Improvising Tangible and Nature-based User Interfaces

Beginner's Mind Collective and David Shaw

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2011
Handcrafting Textile Interfaces from a Kit-of-no-parts

Hannah Perner-Wilson, Leah Buechley, Mika Satomi

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2010
Electronic popables: exploring paper-based computing through an interactive pop-up book

Jie Qi, Leah Buechley

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2009
Electronics as Material: littleBits

Ayah Bdeir

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2008
Are Tangibles More Fun?: Comparing Children's Enjoyment and Engagement Using Physical, Graphical and Tangible User Interfaces

Lesley Xie, Alissa N. Antle, Nima Motamedi

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2007
ReacTIVision: A Computer-vision Framework for Table-based Tangible Interaction

Martin Kaltenbrunner, Ross Bencina

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