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... of the Media Lab's home building. This takes the form of a five-layer, translucent acrylic model woven with embedded...

... embodiment of GUI (graphical user interface) widgets such as icons, handles, and windows; b) the coupling of everyday physical... The metaDESK is our first platform for exploring the design of tangible user interfaces. The metaDESK integrates multiple 2D and 3D graphic...

... controlled by gravity and a magnetic field The inspiration for my artwork comes from life and nature. The organic forms and the...

... around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of ferrofluid are formed at the bottom of the plate and move up, trembling and rotating...

... in machines with rotary motion (for example, some silicon growth systems use ferrofluid). These high-tech materials are... be acquired in everyday life, and once experienced, can never be forgotten. People watch ferrofluid spikes reflecting light—like a...

... on their own selection, the visitors, stepping backwards and forwards in time, can interactively and individually experience and...

... seamless transitions between background awareness and foreground activity. Ghostly Presence is an application of the...

... ambientROOM. The transBOARD also supports the use of physical icons (phicons) as containers of digital strokes. In contrast to the... the metaDESK, the transBOARD provides an interesting platform for considering tangible interfaces with rich input but limited output...

... present and communicate information through their changes in form, movement, sound, color, and light. Ambient Fixtures are...

...Escape © 2012, Laurent MIGNONNEAU & Christa SOMMERER developed for The View Contemporary Art Space Swizerland The installation "Escape" deals...