Slurp: tangibility spatiality and an eyedropper

  • Authors:
  • Jamie Zigelbaum;Adam Kumpf;Alejandro Vazquez;Hiroshi Ishii

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Media Lab, Cambridge , MA, USA;MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA;MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA;MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The value of tangibility for ubiquitous computing is in its simplicity-when faced with the question of how to grasp a digital object, why not just pick it up? But this is problematic; digital media is powerful due to its extreme mutability and is therefore resistant to the constraints of static physical form. We present Slurp, a tangible interface for locative media interactions in a ubiquitous computing environment. Based on the affordances of an eyedropper, Slurp provides haptic and visual feedback while extracting and injecting pointers to digital media between physical objects and displays.