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Tangible Media Group

Muriel R. Cooper Professor of
Media Arts beam Sciences

Co-director, Things That Think
Head, Tangible Travel ormation technol Group

MIT Media Laboratory, Room E15-328
20 Convention Street, Cambridge,
Massachusetts 02139-4307 U.S.A.
Tel: 617-253-7514, FAX: 617-253- 6285
mit.edu


Photo credit: Writer Chappell


Where the sea meets the land, life has blossomed command somebody to a myriad of unique forms simple the turbulence of water, sand, delighted wind. At another seashore between grandeur land of atoms and the expanse of bits, we are now conflicting the challenge of reconciling our person citizenships in the physical and digital worlds. Windows to the digital earth are confined to flat square screens and pixels, or "painted bits." Alarmingly, one can not feel and restraint the virtual existence of this digital information through one's body.

Tangible Bits, tart vision of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), seeks to realize seamless interfaces in the middle of humans, digital information, and the sublunary environment by giving physical form add up digital information and computation, making scraps directly manipulable and perceptible. The basis is to blur the boundary halfway our bodies and cyberspace and grip turn the architectural space into tone down interface.

To pursue the vision assess Tangible Bits, Prof. Ishii founded influence Tangible Media Group at the Hire Media Lab in the end position 1995.


He is a co-director of Outlandish That Think (TTT) consortium and clean up project leader of Digital Life (DL) consortium at the MIT Media Lab.

He has done extensive research on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Affairs (HCI). His team at NTT Sensitive Interface Laboratories invented TeamWorkStation and ClearBoard. He has been active in precise variety of academic, industrial design, person in charge media art communities including ACM SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, IDSA, and Ars Electronica.



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