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The mediaBlocks project is a tangible user interface based upon small, electronically tagged wooden blocks. The blocks serve as physical icons ("phicons") for the containment, transport, and manipulation of online media. mediaBlocks interface with

The focus of an artwork such as reWrite is identity. The work addresses this theme through the use of interactive systems, where the relationship between the viewer and the artwork is explicit and active. This act of interaction functions to raise

Pulsate (Ear on the Wall)(2007) Sachiko Kodama Collaborator: Minako Takeno In a white room a table, chair and an ear hang on the walls. The lighting of the room wraps down from the ceiling and onto the vertical wall. These off-centered

This project explores the creation and use of a physical/digital construction kit. Triangles is a physical computer interface in the form of a construction kit of identical, flat, plastic triangles. The triangles connect together both physically and

inTouch is a project to explore new forms of interpersonal communication through touch. Force-feedback technology is employed to create the illusion that people, separated by distance, are interacting with a shared physical object. The "shared"

PSyBench is a general platform for creating distributed Tangible Interfaces for collaborative design. Objects on an augmented tabletop are physically synchronized with identical objects on a remote table, allowing distant users to cooperatively

Inside sixteen flowerpots placed in a dark room, motors run to rotate transparent disks. A viewer peeking into a flowerpot will find an animation of the images printed on the transparent disk, illuminated by the switching of small white LED, and

My first project “Protrude, Flow used six electromagnets. But, the electromagnets occasionally prevented people from viewing the moving liquid. To solve this problem and to simplify the work, I discovered a new technique called “Ferrofluid

Morpho Tower / Two Standing Spirals (2007) Sachiko Kodama Collaborator: Yasushi Miyajima (Sony CSL) “Morpho Towers--Two Standing Spirals” is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two

Protrude, Flow 2008 (2008) Shown at Reina Sofia National Museum in madrid. Enabling people to experience a strong aesthetic feeling is the main purpose of “Protrude Flow 2008.” This experience cannot be acquired in everyday life, and once