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Database of Provincial Life uses digital computers to accomplish a task which was impossible to achieve using any previous representational medium: documenting EVERYTHING which happen to EVERYBODY who lived in the 20th century. By focusing on the

... tags embedded in the bottles enable each one to be wirelessly identified. The opening and...

... physical means. Studies are being done that examine how people perceive information...

The musicbox is a tangible interface supporting remote awareness through the medium of music and light. The musicbox is linked over the Internet to the music and light levels surrounding a remote piano. The system communicates live music and a sense

... needle connected to clear tubing and feed one another in a mutually nourishing relationship....

... with circuit boards, wires, microphone, and speaker embedded on a vertical mahogany...

TouchCounters are computational tags that track the usage of physical objects. TouchCounters sense activity through magnetic, acceleration, and infrared sensors, and indicate their status on bright LED displays. Through magnetic snap connectors,

... record and playback physical motion. As one plays with it, it remembers how it has been...

HandSCAPE is a vectorizing digital tape measure as an input device for digitizing field measurements, and visualizing the volume of the resulting vectors with computer graphics. Using embedded orientation-sensing hardware, HandSCAPE captures

The metaDESK is our first platform for exploring the design of tangible user interfaces. The metaDESK integrates multiple 2D and 3D graphic displays with an assortment of physical objects and instruments, sensed by an array of optical, mechanical,