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Tangible Bits: User Interface Design towards Seamless Integration of Digital and Physical Worlds (in Japanese) Hiroshi Ishii MIT Media Lab ishii@media.mit.edu ABSTRACT
The boundary between digital and physical worlds is discontinuous; the window to the digital world today is strictly confined to the Graphical User Interface (GUI) consisting of mouse, keyboard, and screen. Tangible Bits is an alternative approach to creating a seamless interface between digital and physical worlds; we call it the "Tangible User Interface (TUI)." Rather than imitating the physical world graphically within the computer screen, TUI makes the digital world tangible by giving physical forms to digital information and computation. TUI supports direct and collaborative manipulation of digital information by taking advantage of tactile physical interactions. This paper presents the basic model of TUI in comparison with GUI, and illustrates a variety of applications through a series of design examples. (in Japanese) |
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