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''The Reading Glove''is the first component of a research program called the TUNE Project (Tangible, Ubiquitous, Narrative Environment). Karen and Josh Tanenbaum describe TUNE as a story, a space, a game, and a research instrument that investigates questions of interactive narrative, player modeling, adaptivity, and tangible embodied interaction.

''The Reading Glove'' itself has gone through several iterations. Version 1.0 consisted of a wearable RFID-enabled glove and tagged objects that allowed readers to experience an interactive narrative by picking up objects that have been augmented with story fragments.  There is a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXttP2ukJSc video of Reading Glove 1.0] and details of the design process on [http://thegeekmovement.com/blog our blog].

For Reading Glove 2.0 we added a tabletop display and a recommendation engine the helped to guide readers through assembling the distributed narrative. This version has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE6vllYI5RI its own video] and its development is also documented on [http://thegeekmovement.com/blog the blog]. In the summer and fall of 2010 we ran a series of user studies exploring how participants experienced the adaptive system and object-based narrative.

(Source: author's website.)