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Tangible Bits Vision

The Tangible Bits Vision was developed by Hiroshi Ishii and Tangible Media Group in 1997 who seeked to take advantage of the human skills to sense and manipulate the physical environment in order to explore digital information spaces. They proposed the concept of Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) to go beyong the “painted” bits on Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). Data (=bits) is given a tangible, physical form (=atoms), including for example directly graspable objects and augmented surfaces as well as ambient light, sound, airflow, and water movement.

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