Papers
CHI 2001
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Seattle, Washington, USA
March 31 - April 5 2001
© 2001 ACM

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Strata/ICC: Physical Models as Computational Interfaces
Brygg Ullmer, Elizabeth Kim, Axel Kilian, Steve Gray, and Hiroshi Ishii
Tangible Media Group
MIT Media Laboratory
20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
{ullmer, eliskim, akilian, gray, ishii}@media.mit.edu

ABSTRACT
We present Strata/ICC: a computationally-augmented physical model of a 54-story skyscraper that serves as an interactive display of electricity consumption, water consumption, network utilization, and other kinds of infrastructure. Our approach pushes information visualizations into the physical world, with a vision of transforming large-scale physical models into new kinds of interaction workspaces.