Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces between People, Bits and Atoms

Ishii, Hiroshi, Brygg Ullmer. “Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces between People, Bits and Atoms.”, Proceedings of CHI 97. ACM. March, 1997.

The goal of Tangible Bits is to bridge the gaps between both the virtual and the physical environments, as well as the foreground and background of human activities. The intention is to rejoin the richness of the physical world in HCI by making information (bits) tangible.

Relation to my thesis: Hiroshi Ishii represents one big trend in ubicomp. His vision is not about making “computers” ubiquitous per se, but by integrating them more into physical and tangible forms (bridging the gap between the worlds of bits and atomes.).