Papers
	CHI 2001 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Seattle, Washington, USA March 31 - April 5 2001 © 2001 ACM 235kb Bottles as a Minimal Interface to Access Digital Information Hiroshi Ishii, Ali Mazalek, and Jay Lee Tangible Media Group MIT Media Laboratory 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA {ishii, mazalek, jaylee}@media.mit.edu ABSTRACT We present the design of a minimal interface to access digital information using glass bottles as "containers" and "controls". The project illustrates our attempt to explore the transparency of an interface that weaves itself into the fabric of everyday life, and exploits the emotional aspects of glass bottles that are both tangible and visual. This paper describes the design of the bottle interface, and the implementation of the musicBottles installation, in which the opening of each bottle releases the sound of a specific instrument.