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Fitchett, C. and Greenberg, S. (2001)
The Phidget Architecture: Rapid Development of Physical User Interfaces. In UbiTools’01 Workshop on Application Models and Programming Tools for Ubiquitous Computing – Held at UBICOMP’01 Conference, September 30, Atlanta, Georgia.
Type: Refereed workshop.

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Abstract.
We are developing physical widgets, or phidgets, which are almost direct analogs to how graphical user interface (GUI) widgets are packaged and ‘dropped into’ software applications. In a previous paper , we described the general idea of phidgets and how we built them. We also showed that everyday programmers could develop physical user interface easily and with minimal training. In this paper, we detail the phidget architecture and its design considerations.