TOUCH: Creating interactional artefacts in a physical world

The maxim states that seeing is believing but that it is touch that determines reality. Instinctively wereach out to touch those objects that attract or perplex. Touch conveys an intimacy both at a physicaland emotional level. In the pursuit of the digital world, the sense of engagement that touch offers haslargely been sacrificed. Instead the GUI has been created, the ubiquitous portal into the digital world,with its levels of indirection acting as a constant challenge to HCI practitioners and users alike.Interaction has lost its grounding in physicalit