TouchCounters: designing interactive electronic labels for physical containers

  • Authors:
  • Paul Yarin;Hiroshi Ishii

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '00 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

TouchCounters is a system of electronic labels, physical storage containers, and shelving surfaces linked by specialized hardware. The labels record and display accumulated usage information directly upon physical storage containers, thus allowing access to this information during the performance of physical tasks. A distributed communications network allows remote access to this data from the Internet. This video demonstrates the functionality of TouchCounters in supporting the shared use of physical resources.