CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing systems Florence, Italy April 05 - 10, 2008 2008 ACM Press

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Slurp: Tangibility, Spatiality, and an Eyedropper

Jamie Zigelbaum, Adam Kumpf, Alejandro Vazquez, and Hiroshi Ishii
Tangible Media Group
MIT Media Laboratory

zig[at]media.mit.edu
kumpf[at]media.mit.edu
mc2[at]mit.edu
ishii[at]media.mit.edu

ABSTRACT

The value of tangibility for ubiquitous computing is in its simplicity–when faced with the question of how to grasp a digital object, why not just pick it up? But this is problematic; digital media is powerful due to its extreme mutability and is therefore resistant to the constraints of static physical form. We present Slurp, a tangible interface for locative media interactions in a ubiquitous computing environment. Based on the affordances of an eyedropper, Slurp provides haptic and visual feedback while extracting and injecting pointers to digital media between physical objects and displays.