Slurp Talk at CHI'08

Jamie Zigelbaum presents Slurp, a digital eyedropper. In the alt.chi track at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2008) in Florence Italy.

Slurp is tangible interface for manipulating abstract digital information as if it were water. Taking the form of an eyedropper, Slurp can extract (slurp up) and inject (squirt out) pointers to digital objects. We have created Slurp to explore the use of physical metaphor, feedback, and affordances in tangible interface design when working with abstract digital media types. Our goal is to privilege spatial relationships between devices and people while providing new physical manipulation techniques for ubiquitous computing environments.

Slurp was made by Jamie Zigelbaum, Adam Kumpf, Alejandro Vazquez, and Hiroshi Ishii in the Tangible Media Group http://tangible.media.mit.edu at the MIT Media Lab. See http://zig.media.mit.edu/Work/Slurp for more info.

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