From February 18 to 20 the research-community for Tangible User Interfaces came together at the 2nd conference on Tangible Embedded Interaction in Bonn, Germany. Matt Jervis from University of Waikato and Thomas from the MI-Lab presented the results of their work on enhanced filing folders and cabinets called “Aroo - Smart Folders“. One of the conference highlights was the keynote talk by Hiroshi Ishii presenting the vision behind his work and that it might effect people in 200 years (see picture in more…)
Besides this presentation some other interesting work was shown. Especially interfaces for creating and mixing sound were quite popular. In the area of Tabletop Interfaces three projects were shown. The first, ColorTable, facilitates some colored wooden objects placed onto a tabletop for city planing tasks. The other two works, Sandbox and Xenakis, using tabletop setups to create sound.
Some Pictures:
Keynote by Hiroshi Ishii
Sandbox
Xenakis
Head mounted fans:
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