Biotechonomy. Hiroshi Ishii's Home Page. Where the sea meets the land, life has blossomed into a myriad of unique forms in the turbulence of water, sand, and wind.
At another seashore between the land of atoms and the sea of bits, we are now facing the challenge of reconciling our dual citizenships in the physical and digital worlds. Windows to the digital world are confined to flat square screens and pixels, or "painted bits. " Unfortunately, one can not feel and confirm the virtual existence of this digital information through one's body. Tangible Bits, our vision of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), seeks to realize seamless interfaces between humans, digital information, and the physical environment by giving physical form to digital information and computation, making bits directly manipulable and perceptible. Dr. Dennis Hong - RoMeLa. From RoMeLa Dr.
Dennis Hong, a TED alumnus, is a Professor and the Founding Director of RoMeLa (Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory) of the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department at UCLA. The Norman Lear Center: Projects.