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Urp: a luminous-tangible workbench for urban planning and design
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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: the CHI is the limit table of contents
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Pages: 386 - 393  
Year of Publication: 1999
ISBN:0-201-48559-1
Authors
John Underkoffler  MIT Media Laboratory, Tangible Media Group, Cambridge, MA
Hiroshi Ishii  MIT Media Laboratory, Tangible Media Group, Cambridge, MA
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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

We introduce a system for urban planning - called Urp -that integrates functions addressing a broad range of the fields concerns into a single, physically based workbench setting. The I/O Bulb infrastructure on which the application is based allows physical architectural models placed on an ordinary table surface to cast shadows accurate for arbitrary times of day; to throw reflections off glass facade surfaces; to affect a real-time and visually coincident simulation of pedestrian-level windflow; and so on.

We then use comparisons among Urp and several earlier I/O Bulb applications as the basis for an understanding of luminous-tangible interactions, which result whenever an interface distributes meaning and functionality between physical objects and visual information projectively coupled to those objects. Finally, we briefly discuss two issues common to all such systems, offering them as informal thought-tools for the design and analysis of luminous-tangible interfaces.


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Underkoffler, J. A View From The Luminous Room. Personal Technologies, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1997.
 
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Collaborative Colleagues:
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Hiroshi Ishii: colleagues