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Hands and Fingers: A mobile platform for a person-centric network of computational objects

John Kestner (MIT)
Henry Holtzman (MIT)

Abstract

We describe a practical vision of ubiquitous computing with tangible interfaces, achievable in the near future, that orbits around an individual and is mediated by his or her personal consumer electronic devices. We illustrate this with a software and hardware platform for creating a personal area network of information accessories, connecting people physically with network-accessible information. The toolkit hardware consists of a Bluetooth module outfitted with I/O pins for connecting input sensors and output actuators. The software component resides on a handheld consumer electronics device acting as a router between the Bluetooth modules and the Internet. We use this platform to create three examples of network-aware computational consumer objects.

Document

http://tei-conf.org/10/uploads/Program/p223.pdf

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