interface – Radical Atoms

bioLogic

katjani — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 10:44:09 +0000

bioLogic is growing living actuators and synthesizing responsive bio-skin in the era where bio is the new interface. Natto bacteria are harvested in a bio lab, assembled by a micron-resolution bio-printing system, and transformed into responsive fashion, a “Second Skin”. The synthetic bio-skin reacts to body heat and sweat, causing flaps around heat zones to open, enabling sweat to evaporate and cool down the body through an organic material flux.

Exhibition: Lining Yao, Jifei Ou, Wen Wang, Hiroshi Ishii Research : Lining Yao, Wen Wang, Guanyun Wang, Helene Steiner, Chin Yi Cheng, Jifei Ou, Oksana Anilionyte, and Hiroshi Ishii

LineFORM

katjani — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 10:05:51 +0000

Lines have several interesting characteristics from the perspective of interaction design: abstractness of data representation; a variety of inherent interactions; and constraints as boundaries or borderlines. Utilizig such aspects of lines together with the added capability of transformation, this project investigates the design space of line-based shape changing interfaces through presenting various applications such as shape changing cords, mobiles, body constraints, and data manipulation.

Exhibition: Ken Nakagaki, Nikolaos Vlavianos and Hiroshi Ishii Research: Ken Nakagaki, Sean Follmer, and Hiroshi Ishii

inForm

katjani — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 09:56:41 +0000

inFORM is a shape display that gives physical form to digital information. Motorized pins extend from a tabletop to form a physical sculpture that users can view, touch and deform. inFORM can also interact with the world around it, by accurately moving and manipulating objects placed on its surface. Remote participants in a videoconference can be rendered physically, allowing for a strong sense of presence and the ability to manipulate distant objects.

Exhibition: Daniel Leithinger, Ken Nakagaki and Hiroshi Ishii Research: Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Alex Olwal, Philipp Schoessler, Jared Counts, Ken Nakagaki, David Doan, Basheer Tome, Akimitsu Hogge, and Hiroshi Ishii

SandScape

katjani — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 09:29:18 +0000

SandScape is a tangible interface for designing and understanding landscapes through a variety of computational simulations using sand. Users view these simulations as they are projected on the surface of a sand model that represents the terrain. The users can choose from a variety of different simulations that highlight either the height, slope, contours, shadows, drainage or aspect of the landscape model.

Exhibition: Daniel John Fitzgerald, Luke Vink, Ken Nakagaki, Nikolaos Vlavianos, and Hiroshi Ishii Research: Yao Wang, Assaf Biderman, Ben Piper, Carlo Ratti and Hiroshi Ishii

musicBottles

katjani — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 09:26:59 +0000

musicBottles is an interactive installation for visitors to interact with soundwaves encapsulated in bottles. The installation consists of a set of bottle that encapsulate sounds from Boston, Cambridge and the MIT neighborhood. When a visitor opens a bottle, sounds in the bottle evaporate into the atmosphere, giving visitors a glimpse into Bostonian culture through escaping sounds emanating from the glass vessels.

Exhibition: Udayan Umapathi, Penny Webb, Mitchell D Hwang, Patrick Shin and Hiroshi Ishii Research: Rich Fletcher, Ali Mazalek, Jay Lee, Seungho Choo, Joanna Berzowska, Craig Wisneski, Charlie Cano, Andres Hernandez, Colin Bulthaupand, Joe Paradiso and Hiroshi Ishii