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June 2008

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Organic User Interfaces

26 Introduction Roel Vertegaal and Ivan Poupyrev, Guest Editors

32 The Tangible User Interface and Its Evolution Hiroshi Ishii

38 Organic Interaction Technologies: From Stone to Skin Jun Rekimoto

45 Emerging Display Technologies for Organic User Interfaces Elise Co and Nikita Pashenkov

48 Organic User Interfaces: Designing Computers in Any Way, Shape, or Form David Holman and Roel Vertegaal 56 Sustainability Implications of Organic User Interface Technologies: An Inky Problem Eli Blevis

58 Designing Kinetic Interactions for Organic User Interfaces Amanda Parkes, Ivan Poupyrev, and Hiroshi Ishii 67 What Makes an Interface Feel Organic? Carsten Schwesig

70 Interactions With Proactive Architectural Spaces: The Muscle Projects Kas Oosterhuis and Nimish Biloria 79 Dynamic Ferrofluid Sculpture: Organic Shape-Changing Art Forms Sachiko Kodama

Articles

82 Information Accountability Daniel J. Weitzner, Harold Abelson, Tim Berners-Lee, Joan Feigenbaum,

James Hendler, and Gerald Jay Sussman

89 A Risk Profile of Offshore-Outsourced Development Projects Charalambos L. Iacovou and Robbie Nakatsu 95 Ubiquitous Access: On the Front Lines of Patient Care and Safety Chon Abraham, Richard Thomas Watson,

and Marie-Claude Boudreau

101 Outsourcing and the Decrease of IS Program Enrollment Wayne Wei Huang, Jonathon Greene, and John Day

Columns

15 Digital Village BRAP Forensics Hal Berghel

21 Practical Programmer Software Design and the Monkey’s Brain Robert L. Glass

23 Viewpoint Give Me Information, Not Technology Arik Ragowsky, Paul S. Licker, and David Gefen 112 Inside Risks Risks of Neglecting Infrastructure Jim Horning and Peter G. Neumann

Departments

7 News Track

9 Forum

109 Career Opportunities

111 Calendar of Events

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