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
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 TellTale is a story
construction kit for children. Its goal is to help youngsters create and experiment
with the structure and content of oral language in way similar to how written
text is composed. The design consists of a number of modular body components and
one head piece that are used to record and play audio segments created by a child,
or by several children. The body parts can contain stories or story fragments
that can be combined in different orders to create new narrative configurations,
letting children experiment with plot, transitions, endings, beginnings -- basically,
anything they can imagine. In essence, it's a "tangible story processor" for children
who have stories to tell but who might not yet have the skills necessary to communicate
their ideas in writing. User studies suggest that TellTale's segmented structure
helps children use body pieces as "linguistic containers." They oral stories they
compose with TellTale are indicative of later written literacy skills: they are
longer, more cohesive (with fewer disfluencies and more conjunctive phrases) and
contain "better formed" beginnings and endings than stories created with a non-segmented
interface.
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