Papers
	SIGGRPAH 99 Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics Los Angeles, California USA 8-13 August 1999 1999 ACM 1477kb HandSCAPE Jay Lee, Victor Su, Sandia Ren, James Hsaio, Rujira Hongladaromp, and Hiroshi Ishii Tangible Media Group MIT Media Laboratory 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA {jaylee, vsu, sren, jamhsiao, rujira, ishii}@media.mit.edu ABSTRACT HandSCAPE is an orientation-aware digital measuring tape. While a measuring tape only produces linear distance, the addition of orientation sensors allows a vector measurement to be made, having both length and direction. With this addition, the measuring tape can serve as an input device to computer drawing and modelling applications. HandSCAPE provides the user with a simple interface with which to generate digital models of physical objects. The interaction involves taking measurements of several physical objects and the distances between them. Once the model has been generated, the user can manipulate it in the digital domain. HandSCAPE draws upon the familiarity of measuring the objects and spaces surrounding us, and thus preserves the human senses and skills