Siftables is a collaboration with David Merrill. This work aims to apply technology and methodology from wireless sensor networks to tangible user interfaces. Siftables are
independent, compact devices with sensing, graphical display, and wireless communication. They can be physically manipulated as a group to interact with digital information and media.
When we overturn a container of nuts and bolts and sift through the resulting pile to find one of a particular size, or spread photographs out on a tabletop and sort them into piles, we use all of our fingers and both hands actively and efficiently. However, when we sort digital information or media such as digital photographs or emails, the experience does not usually leverage these abilities. We hope Siftables can bridge this gap without requiring any special infrastructure. As a general-purpose platform for human-computer interaction, they will open up new expressive possibilities in a variety of domains.
Siftables
independent, compact devices with sensing, graphical display, and wireless communication. They can be physically manipulated as a group to interact with digital information and media.
When we overturn a container of nuts and bolts and sift through the resulting pile to find one of a particular size, or spread photographs out on a tabletop and sort them into piles, we use all of our fingers and both hands actively and efficiently. However, when we sort digital information or media such as digital photographs or emails, the experience does not usually leverage these abilities. We hope Siftables can bridge this gap without requiring any special infrastructure. As a general-purpose platform for human-computer interaction, they will open up new expressive possibilities in a variety of domains.
Siftables
