Ishii Introduction

Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Tangible Media Group MIT Media Laboratory Room E15-485, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 Tel: 617-253-7514, FAX: 617-258-6264 e-mail: ishii@media.mit.edu
We live between two worlds: our physical environment and cyberspace. Professor Ishii's focus is on the design of seamless interfaces between humans, digital information, and the physical environment.

At the MIT Media Lab, he founded and directs the Tangible Media Group pursuing a vision of HCI: "Tangible Bits." His group attempts to change "painted bits" of GUI into "tangible bits" to take advantage of the multiple senses and the multi-modality of human interactions with the physical world. The goal of Tangible Bits is to bridge the gaps between cyberspace and the physical environment by coupling pertinent digital information (bits) to physical objects and environments. He is a project leader of the Things That Think (TTT) consortium at the Media Lab. He has done extensive research on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). His team at NTT Human Interface Laboratories invented TeamWorkStation and ClearBoard. He has been active in the ACM SIGCHI community.

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