Diewald, StefanMöller, AndreasRoalter, LuisKranz, MatthiasButz, AndreasKoch, MichaelSchlichter, Johann2017-11-222017-11-222014978-3-11-034448-6https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/7530Physical prototyping is an important part in research and development of tangible user interfaces (TUIs). On the way from the idea to a working prototype, hardware prototypes usually have to be crafted repeatedly in numerous iterations. However, this can be very time- and cost-intensive when non-standard, expensive hardware components are part of the design. This brings us to think about digital prototypes that exhibit the same functionality as a physical TUI, but reduce the amount of resources that have to be spent. For that reason, we present a middleware-based process that allows developing and testing fully functional implementations of a tangible user interface as a digital device in a 3D virtual environment.enTangible User InterfacesPrototypingDigital TUIPrototypingInteraktionsmodellierungBe-greifbare InteraktionText/Workshop Paper