Tangible User Interface


Tangible User Interface

(interface)An attempt to give physical form to digitalinformation, making bits directly manipulable and perceptibleby people. Tangible Interfaces will make bits accessiblethrough augmented physical surfaces (e.g. walls, desktops,ceilings, windows), graspable objects (e.g. building blocks,models, instruments) and ambient media (e.g. light, sound,airflow, water-flow, kinetic sculpture) within physicalenvironments.

MIT Tangible Media Group.