Materials of Making

This is a blog inspired by a love of physical interaction with a material, clay, and the adventure of mixing it up with computerized digital technology.
Here's Hiroshi Ishii's version of what I mean...



A tangible user interface (TUI) is a user interface in which a person interacts with digital information through the physical environment.

One of the pioneers in tangible user interfaces is Hiroshi Ishii, a professor in the MIT Media Laboratory who heads the Media Group. His particular vision for tangible UIs, called Tangible Bits, is to give physical form to digital information, making bits directly manipulable and perceptible. Tangible bits pursues seamless coupling between these two very different worlds of bits and atoms.