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Siftables: towards sensor network user interfaces

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David Merrill,

Jeevan Kalanithi,

Pattie MaesAuthors Info & Claims

TEI '07: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction

Pages 75 - 78

https://doi.org/10.1145/1226969.1226984

Published: 15 February 2007 Publication History

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This paper outlines Siftables, a novel platform that applies technology and methodology from wireless sensor networks to tangible user interfaces in order to yield new possibilities for human-computer interaction. Siftables are compact devices with sensing, graphical display, and wireless communication. They can be physically manipulated as a group to interact with digital information and media. We discuss the unique affordances that a sensor network user interface (SNUI) such as Siftables provides, as well as the resulting directness between the physical interface and the data being manipulated. We conclude with a description of some gestural language primitives that we are currently prototyping with Siftables.

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TEI '07: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction

February 2007

296 pages

ISBN:9781595936196

DOI:10.1145/1226969

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Brygg Ullmer
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Albrecht Schmidt
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

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