Tuesday
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Dr. Hiroshi Ishii, MIT, USA
Jake Kolojejchick, General Dynamics, USA
Dr. Peter Lucas, MAYA Design, USA
David Rose, Ambient Devices, USA
This session reports on two bodies of research. Both continuously oriented toward pervasive computing since the early '90s. Both yielding contemporary instantiations outside the lab. In 1995, MAYA Design introduced the notion of an "information-centric" GUI - where displays are arrangements of elements that can be broken apart by users and directly manipulated (giving people the sense of "getting their hands on the data"). Today, General Dynamics is working with the US Army to deploy collaborative, "info-centric" systems all over the world. Similarly, in 1995, the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab started to design seamless interfaces between humans, digital information, and the physical environment. Their notion of "Tangible Bits" (giving physical form to digital information) sparked the formation of a company (Ambient Devices) that has sold over 200,000 simple, glanceable information objects and a nationwide bit-tricking network to power them.