Hiroshi Ishii - "The Art of Tangible Bits"
University of Pennsylvania / Integrated Product Design presents:
"The Art of Tangible Bits" Hiroshi Ishii, Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
MIT Berger Auditorium, Skirkanich Hall
5:30pm / Monday, November 24, 2008
Reception to proceed the seminar at 5:00pm in Berger Lower Lobby.
http://tangible.media.mit.edu/people/hiroshi.php
Abstract
Our vision of Tangible Bits is carried out through an artistic approach. Whereas today's mainstream Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Design research address functional concerns – the needs of users, practical applications, and usability evaluation – Tangible Bits is a vision driven by concepts. This is because today's technologies will become obsolete in one year, and today's applications will be replaced in 10 years, but true visions – we believe – can last longer than 100 years.
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. Our goal is to invent new design media for artistic expression as well as for scientific analysis, taking advantage of the richness of human senses and skills – as developed through our lifetime of interaction with the physical world – as well as the computational reflection enabled by real-time sensing and digital feedback.
Tangible Bits is an artistic vision that seeks to transform the way we see and interact with the world. I will present examples of Tangible Bits projects that were at once inspired by Art and are inspiring artists. They were presented and exhibited in Media Arts, Design, and Science communities including ICC, Ars Electronica, Centre Pompidou, Victoria and Albert Museum, Venice Biennale, ArtFutula, IDSA, ICSID, AIGA, ACM CHI, SIGGRAPH, UIST, CSCW.
Bio
Hiroshi Ishii is a tenured Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, at the MIT Media Lab. He was named Associate Director at the Media Lab in May 2008. He co-directs Things That Think (TTT) consortium and directs Tangible Media Group. At the MIT Media Lab, he founded and directs the Tangible Media Group pursuing a new vision of Human Computer Interaction (HCI): "Tangible Bits." His team seeks to change the "painted bits" of GUIs to "tangible bits" by giving physical form to digital information.
Ishii and his team have presented their vision of "Tangible Bits" at a variety of academic, industrial design, and artistic venues (including ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, Industrial Design Society of America, AIGA, Ars Electronica, Centre Pompidou, and Victoria and Albert Museum), emphasizing that the development of tangible interfaces requires the rigor of both scientific and artistic review. A display of many of the group's projects took place at the NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo in summer 2000. A three-year-long exhibition "Get in Touch" featured the Tangible Media group's work at Ars Electronica Center (Linz, Austria) from September 2001 through August 2004. He was elected to CHI Academy by ACM SIGCHI, and it was announced in CHI 2006 in Montreal.
Prior to MIT, from 1988-1994, he led a CSCW research group at the NTT Human Interface Laboratories, where his team invented TeamWorkStation a
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