TILTle: exploring dynamic balance

Authors:
Paulina Modlitba;Dietmar Offenhuber;Moses Ting;Dido Tsigaridi;Hiroshi Ishii
Affiliations:
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA;MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA;Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing for User eXperiences
Year:
2007

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce a novel tangible interface for exploring dynamic equilibria using the metaphor of a traditional balance scale. Rather than comparing and identifying physical weight, our scale can be used for contrasting digital data in different domains. We do this by assigning virtual weight to objects, which physically affects the scale. Our goal is to communicate complex comparison mechanisms, by making them visible and graspable, and expose temporality, by non-instantaneous computation results and over time changes reflected in the behavior of the scale. In this paper we present the interface and discuss the different interaction techniques possible with it.