Triangles: tangible interface for manipulation and exploration of digital information topography
Triangles: tangible interface for manipulation and exploration of digital information topography
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三角形：用于操纵和探索数字信息地形的有形界面
DOI：
10.1145/274644.274652
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发表时间：
1998
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通讯作者：
H. Ishii
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作者：
M. Gorbet;Maggie Orth;H. Ishii
本文提出了一种与数字信息交互的系统，称为三角形。 Triangles系统是一个物理/数字构建套件，它允许用户用两只手来掌握和操作复杂的数字信息。该套件由一组相同的扁平塑料三角形组成，每个三角形内部都有微处理器和磁性边缘连接器。连接器使三角形能够相互物理连接，并提供这些连接的触觉反馈。连接器还可以传输电力，使三角形能够相互传送数字信息并与台式计算机传送数字信息。当这些部件相互接触时，特定的连接信息会被发送回一台跟踪系统配置的计算机。部件的特定二维和三维配置可以触发应用程序事件。三角形系统提供了数字信息地形的物理体现。各个瓷砖具有简单的几何形式，不继承日常物理对象的语义。它们的形状、大小和连接器鼓励三角形组的快速重新排列和探索。三角形系统的无限可重构 2D 和 3D 拓扑为有形界面创建了一种新的语言。
This paper presents a system for interacting with digital information, called Triangles. The Triangles system is a physical/digital construction kit, which allows users to use two hands to grasp and manipulate complex digital information. The kit consists of a set of identical flat, plastic triangles, each with a microprocessor inside and magnetic edge connectors. The connectors enable the Triangles to be physically connected to each other and provide tactile feedback of these connections. The connectors also pass electricity, allowing the Triangles to communicate digital information to each other and to a desktop computer. When the pieces contact one another, specific connection information is sent back to a computer that keeps track of the configuration of the system. Specific two and three-dimensional configurations of the pieces can trigger application events. The Triangles system provides a physical embodiment of digital information topography. The individual tiles have a simple geometric form which does not inherit the semantics of everyday physical objects. Their shape, size, and connectors encourage rapid rearrangement and exploration of groups of Triangles. The infinitely reconfigurable 2D and 3D topographies of the Triangles system create a new language for tangible interface.