{"id":1157,"date":"2009-06-23T05:34:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T12:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2009-06-23T11:44:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T18:44:15","slug":"tangibles-day-at-fxpal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=1157","title":{"rendered":"Tangibles Day at FXPAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we had two interesting visitors who each gave talks in the area of tangible computing. (Briefly, tangible computing explores ways of interacting with computers using real-world physical objects; much more info can be found online including at the <a href=\"http:\/\/tangible.media.mit.edu\/\">Tangible Media Group <\/a>at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/\">MIT Media Lab<\/a>). FXPAL has done a number of tangible interface projects over the years, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7DRUApPC_1I\">PostBits project,<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fxpal.com\/?p=abstract&amp;abstractID=481\">Convertible Podium, <\/a>and others.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->First, Hideto Yuzawa gave an informal talk on his recent work investigating the use of tangible interfaces to facilitate awareness and controlling interruptions. Hideto is an FX researcher, and has been a visiting researcher at UC Irvine for two years, where he worked with Gloria Mark. He&#8217;ll finish his work at UC Irvine and return to FX this month.<\/p>\n<p>Later that afternoon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exhibitfiles.org\/sasha_harriscronin\">Sasha Harris-Cronin<\/a> talked about some of the projects that<a href=\"http:\/\/bbinet.com\/\"> BBI Engineering<\/a> has done recently, including museum exhibits, corporate information installations, and other physically based interactives.  Museum exhibits are often closely related to tangible\/physical computing research: part of the educational mission of museums is to find new ways to engage the minds of visitors, and tangible interactions are a great way to do that. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploratorium.edu\/\">Exploratorium<\/a> in San Francisco was a leader in this &#8220;hands-on&#8221; style of interactive exhibits; now most science and tech museums follow this design paradigm.<\/p>\n<p>Sasha showed us some of the recent projects coming out of BBI, including a suite of exhibits and experiences for the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calacademy.org\/\">California Academy of Sciences<\/a> (BBI worked with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thincdesign.com\/\">Thinc Design<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinnabar.com\/\">Cinnabar<\/a> on this project). (She has worked in research settings as well &#8211; notably in her graduate work at <a href=\"http:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/\">NYU&#8217;s ITP program, <\/a>with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tigoe.net\/\"> Tom Igoe.<\/a> And you can see some of her political art &#8211; some of which has tangible aspects &#8211;  on her<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortalspaces.com\"> website.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One major difference between research prototypes and public exhibits: real-world exhibits must work 99.5 % of the time, for thousands of people, not 70% of the time for 5 people (to quote Sasha). This design constraint leads to the use of trusted technologies and systems, and experience counts for much.  BBI&#8217;s (and Sasha&#8217;s) range of successful projects looms even larger bearing this in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we had two interesting visitors who each gave talks in the area of tangible computing. (Briefly, tangible computing explores ways of interacting with computers using real-world physical objects; much more info can be found online including at the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab). 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