Papers
	SIGGRAPH 98 Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics Orlando, Florida USA 19-24 July 1998 1998 AC 132kb mediaBlocks: Physical Containers, Transports, and Controls for Online Media Brygg Ullmer, Hiroshi Ishii, and Dylan Glas* Tangible Media Group MIT Media Laboratory 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA {ishii, ullmer}@media.mit.edu ABSTRACT We present a tangible user interface based upon media-Blocks: small, electronically tagged wooden blocks that serve as physical icons (cicons”) for the containment, transport, and manipulation of online media. MediaBlocks interface with media input and output devices such as video cameras and projectors, allowing digital media to be rapidly cpied” from a media source and pasted into a media display. Media-Blocks are also compatible with traditional GUIs, providing seamless gateways between tangible and graphical interfaces. Finally, mediaBlocks act as physical cntrols” in tangible interfaces for tasks such as se-quencing collections of media elements.