STATIC / PASSIVE
KINETIC / ACTIVE

Anti-gravity tangibles

levitation of objects

2.5-D deformable / transformable continuous tangibles (digital clay)

ZeroN levitated tangibles UIST ‘ 11

Illuminating Clay landscape design tool using augmented clay CHI ‘02

Sandscape landscape design tool using augmented sand Ars Electronica ‘02

Relief 2.5-D interactive shape display TEI ‘09, UIST ‘ 11

Recompose gesture-controllable 2.5-D shape display UIST ‘ 11

2-D tabletop discrete tangibles

translation of discrete objects

metaDESK
concept demo:
phicon = container
+ controller
CHI ‘97, UIST ‘97

urp

urban planning workbench

CHI ‘99, SIGGRAPH ‘98

Sensetable tabletop TUI platform: objects tracking + video projection

CHI ‘01

PSyBench synchronized actuated workbenches CSCW ‘98

Actuated Workbench computer-actuated pucks as display & control

UIST ‘02

PICO
mechanical interven-
tion of actuated pucks
by users
CHI ‘07

Kinetic tangible toolkits

Kinetic Sketchup Bosu

motion prototyping toolkits with physical transformability

TEI ‘09 & DIS ‘ 10

Embodied kinetic tangibles

tele-sync
record and play of motions

Intouch
distributed synchronized
objects (haptic phone)
CSCW ‘98

Curlybot record & play toy CHI ‘00

Topobo
constructive assembly
+ record & play
CHI ‘04, ‘06, ‘08