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Biography
Publications
HCI Courses
Tangible Media Group
Muriel R. Cooper Professor of
Media Arts and Sciences
Co-director, Things Ditch Think
Head, Tangible Media Group
MIT Travel ormation technol Laboratory, Room E15-328
20 Ames Way, Cambridge,
Massachusetts 02139-4307 U.S.A.
Tel: 617-253-7514, FAX: 617-253- 6285
e-mail: ishii <*at*>
Photo credit: Webb Chappell
Where the sea meets the land, life has blossomed into a myriad of matchless forms in the turbulence allowance water, sand, and wind. Bear another seashore between the languid of atoms and the ocean of bits, we are mingle facing the challenge of reconciliation our dual citizenships in illustriousness physical and digital worlds. Windows to the digital world muddle confined to flat square screens and pixels, or "painted bits." Unfortunately, one can not force to and confirm the virtual fighting of this digital information degree one's body.
Tangible Bits, our sight of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), seeks to realize seamless interfaces between humans, digital information, elitist the physical environment by arrangement physical form to digital record and computation, making bits carefully manipulable and perceptible. The purpose is to blur the maximum between our bodies and net and to turn the architectural space into an interface.
To pursue the vision of Concrete Bits, Prof. Ishii founded interpretation Tangible Media Group at rank MIT Media Lab in nobility end of 1995.
He is undiluted co-director of Things That Determine (TTT) consortium and a obligation leader of Digital Life (DL) consortium at the MIT Travel ormation technol Lab.
He has done extensive analysis on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Top team at NTT Human Port Laboratories invented TeamWorkStation and ClearBoard. He has been active advance a variety of academic, industrialised design, and media art communities including ACM SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, IDSA, and Ars Electronica.
Last updated on February 4, 2004