Papers
	CHI 99 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA 15-20 May 1999 1999 AC 90.1kb mediaBlocks: Tangible Interfaces for Online Media Brygg Ullmer and Hiroshi Ishii Tangible Media Group MIT Media Laboratory 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA {ullmer, ishii}@media.mit.edu ABSTRACT MediaBlocks is a tangible interface for physically capturing, transporting, and retrieving online digital media, as well as for physically and digitally manipulating this media. We present a description and video demonstration of mediaBlocks’ function, and consider the work as a beginning towards alleviating the abstraction and complexity endemic to traditional computational interfaces.