Papers
CHI 2006
Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
April 22-27 2006
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Glume: Exploring Materiality in a Soft Augmented Modular Modeling System

Amanda Parkes, Vincent LeClerc, Hiroshi Ishii
MIT Media Lab
amanda@mit.edu, vleclerc@media.mit.edu, ishii@media.mit.edu

ABSTRACT

We introduce Glume, a modular scalable building system with the physical immediacy of a soft and malleable material. The Glume system consists of soft and translucent augmented modules, which communicate capacitively to their neighbors to determine a network topology and are responsive to human touch. Glume explores a unique area of augmented building materials by combining a discrete internal structure with a soft and organic material quality to relax the rigidity of structure and form in previous tangible building block approaches. We envision Glume as a tool for constructing and manipulating models, visualizations and simulations of organically based three dimensional data sets.