Descripción: Google Tech Talks November, 7 2007 ABSTRACT We present a user-friendly approach to unifying program creation and execution, based on a notion of "tangible values" (TVs), which are visual and interactive manifestations of pure values, including functions. Programming happens by gestural composition of TVs. Our goal is to give end-users the ability to create parameterized, composable content wit...

Descripción: The Tangible Sequencer. A simple musical instrument. Colored blocks are associated with sounds. Pressing the play button plays a sound. Putting blocks next to each other plays back a sequence of sounds in the direction of the play arrows. http:// tangiblesequencer.com

Descripción: The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community. http:// tangiblekingdom.com The Tangible Kingdom helps open a window into that uneasiness many feel when what we've read in scripture verses does not line up with our experiences with religion or church. Jesus' news about his kingdom was a wild, life-reorienting message. It changed people, cities, and the social fabric. It was nothing like t...

Descripción: TaPuMa is a digital, tangible public map that allows people to use their own belongings or the everyday objects they carry with them to access relevant, just-in-time information and to find locations of places or people. TaPuMa envisions that conventional maps can be augmented by using the unique identities and affordances of the everyday objects. The TaPuMa system uses a table-top environment w...

Descripción: The Tangible Sequencer. A simple musical instrument. Colored blocks are associated with sounds. Pressing the play button plays a sound. Putting blocks next to each other plays back a sequence of sounds in the direction of the play arrows. http:// tangiblesequencer.com

Descripción: Tamagotchi producer Bandai Japan's new Tuttuki Bako hand held interactive plaything requires you to twiddle your finger around inside the orifice to play with a variety of virtual characters on an LCD screen on the front of the device. Think augmented reality Tamagotchi, and youve pretty much got the point. There are six play modes ranging from pushing around a tiny little person, to ticking some...

Descripción: May 30, 2008 lecture by Hiroshi Ishii for the Stanford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar (CS547). Tangible Bits seeks to realize seamless interfaces between humans, digital information, and the physical environment by giving physical form to digital information, making bits directly manipulable and perceptible. Their goal is to invent new design media for artistic expression as well...

Descripción: The Tangible Sequencer. A simple musical instrument. Colored blocks are associated with sounds. Pressing the play button plays a sound. Putting blocks next to each other plays back a sequence of sounds in the direction of the play arrows. Here, blocks are arranged in a circle producing feedback and infinitely repeating the sounds for each block until the user disrupts the flow. http:// tangibles...

Descripción: Reactable - Electronic Tangible Interface http:// VOLUMEN11.com - ONE LOUDER Reactable is a collaborative electronic musical instrument with a tangible interface based on a table, and inspired by modular synthesizers of the sixties. It was developed by the Music Technology Group at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Multiple simultaneous users share total control over the instrumen...

Descripción: For more than half a century, musicians used artwork as a way of visually describing the contents of an album. "Cover art" attracts attention, reminds the listener of the contents, and when printed on the album cover, provides a tangible representation of the music that's easily used for organization and sharing. Over the past few decades, the benefits of the physical album "package" were lost as ...

Descripción: "Weather Report" uses Brick, a tangible & multi touch interface, to sonify real-time weather data (surface temperature). Video taken at the tables premier at Sea and Space Explorations gallery in Los Angeles. Created by Jordan Hochenbaum and Owen Vallis @ California Institute of the Arts. For more information on Brick & Weather Report, go to http://bricktable.wordpress.com Uses ReacTIVision...

Descripción: Tangible User Interface, Instalation, Design, Art, Technology, Multimédia. Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Comunicação e Arte MCMM Authors ana filipa martins de sousa ana patricia silva oliveira angela sofia laranjeira da costa bruno andre farinha abrantes catia dos santos gomes pinto joao vasco espinhal otero da costa jorge filipe henriques braz jose pedro costa aleluia...

Descripción: Tai-Chi uses tiny piezoelectric sensors to sense surface vibrations. The sensors are connected to a desktop computer and track up to two objects at once by sensing vibrations. Original story - http:// newscientisttech.com/article/dn10673. Project homepage http:// taichi.cf.ac.uk/

Descripción: 16 x 16 LED button matrix performance instrument A device with an interface similar to a video game console, and designed to use light and sound to create a new type of musical instrument. The 256 LRD lights, arranged so that there are 16 vertical lines in 16 horizontal rows, function as switches; they create patterns of light that allow the player to visually control the sound. This entry made ...

Descripción: Vitamin B is an interactive table to explore digital tangible reading. It was developed by Rahul Sen and Jannes Peters during a two week prototyping workshop at Umea Institute of Design in Sweden. more information on: http:// interactiondesign.se/projects/vitaminb/

Descripción: New Interface appeared in Siggraph 2007

Descripción: A head-shaped input device is used to produce expressive facial animations. The physical interface is divided into zones, and each zone controls an expression on a smiley or on a virtual 3D face. Through contacts with the interface users can generate basic or blended expressions. To evaluate the interface and to analyze the behavior of the users, we performed a study made of three experiments i...

Descripción: http:// ufonations.blogspot.com a doctor takes out alien equipment and chips from human abductees

Descripción: The Tangible Sequencer. A simple musical instrument. Colored blocks are associated with sounds. Pressing the play button plays a sound. Putting blocks next to each other plays back a sequence of sounds in the direction of the play arrows. http:// tangiblesequencer.com

Descripción: Final Project for creative writing