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Sensetable: a wireless object tracking platform for tangible user interfaces

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Seattle, Washington, United States

Pages: 253 - 260

Year of Publication: 2001

ISBN:1-58113-327-8

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James Patten	Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
Hiroshi Ishii	Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
Jim Hines	System Dynamics Group, MIT Sloan School of Management, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Gian Pangaro	Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, 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

In this paper we present a system that electromagnetically tracks the positions and orientations of multiple wireless objects on a tabletop display surface. The system offers two types of improvements over existing tracking approaches such as computer vision. First, the system tracks objects quickly and accurately without susceptibility to occlusion or changes in lighting conditions. Second, the tracked objects have state that can be modified by attaching physical dials and modifiers. The system can detect these changes in real-time.We present several new interaction techniques developed in the context of this system. Finally, we present two applications of the system: chemistry and system dynamics simulation.

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