Personal Ambient Display
Craig Wisneski, Professor Hiroshi Ishii, Will Logan, Jeff Steinheider, Blair Dunn
Tangible Bits

Exhibitions
Ars Electronica Center, Linz 2001-
ICC, Tokyo 2000
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06-07
Jabberstamp
05-06
Disaster Simulation
Senspectra
Remix+Robo Topobo
AR-Jig
SP3X
04-05
Glume
PICO
Topobo Backpacks
I-Camera
03-04
I/O Brush
AirportSim
CircuiTUI
Topobo
Tangible Business Process Analyzer
02-03
SandScape
Pins
egaku
IP Network Design Workbench
Super Cilia Skin
Plant Sensors
Vehicle Safety Sensor
Tangible Video Browser
Phoxel Space
01-02
Illuminating Clay
ComTouch
Supply Chain Visualization
Audiopad
Sensetable
Tangible query interfaces
Actuated Workbench
Dolltalk
00-01
CADcast
PegBlocks
LumiTouch
Senseboard
genieBottles
Tangible Viewpoints
TellTale
99-00
Urban Simulation
pinwheels
bottlogues
Strata
GeoSCAPE
Triangles and Narratives
98-99
musicBottles
TouchCounters
curlybot
HandSCAPE
Personal Ambient Display
musicbox
97-98
mediaBlocks
I/O Bulb and Luminous Room
Triangles
inTouch
PSyBench
PingPongPlus
FishFace
Ambient Fixtures
Expressive KineticObjects
96-97
 metaDESK
Tangible Geospace
ambientROOM
Ghostly Presence
transBOARD
mediaFlow
Proxy-Distributed Computation
90-95
Bricks
ClearBoard
Team Workstation


Personal Ambient Displays are small, physical devices worn to display information to a person in a subtle, persistent, and private manner. They can be small enough to be carried in a pocket, worn as a watch, or even adorned like jewelry. In our implementations, information is displayed solely through tactile modalities such as heating and cooling, movement and vibration, and change of shape. The displays are designed to be ambient, transmitting information in the background of a person's perception through these simple, physical means. Studies are being done that examine how people perceive information through tactile displays, and application areas where ambient displays are appropriate are being identified.