摘要：This paper presents the design of an authoring toolfor creating educational activities based on tangibleinteraction. First, background information ispresented in relation to tangible interaction and itspossibilities for the educational context. Also, theconcept of authoring tool is reviewed, and a numberof desirable features for authoring tools oriented tothe educational context are listed. Finally, TIES(Tangible Interaction in Educational Scenario) isdescribed, which is the authoring tool we designedand upon which this paper is focused. The reasonswhy this is a necessary tool are discussed, and someconclusions and future lines of work are presented.
