Illuminating Clay: a Tangible Interface with Potential GRASS Applications

Bringing clay and sand into digital design — continuous tangible user interfaces

Tangible user interfaces (TUIs) provide physical form to digital information and computation, facilitating the direct manipulation of bits. Our goal in TUI development is to empower collaboration, learning, and decision-making by using digital technology and at the same time taking advantage of human abilities to grasp and manipulate physical objects and materials. This paper presents a new gen...

Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs): A Novel Paradigm for GIS

In recent years, an increasing amount of effort has gone into the design of GIS user interfaces. On the one hand, Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) with a high degree of sophistication have replaced line-driven commands of first-generation GIS. On the other hand, a number of alternative approaches have been suggested, most notably those based on Virtual Environments (VEs). In this paper we discu...

Bottles: A Transparent Interface as a Tribute to Mark Weiser

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Continuous Tangible Interfaces: Bringing Clay and Sand into Digital Design

Effect of Moisture Content on Shear Strength of Offshore Clay Interface Steel Surface

This paper investigates the effect of moisture content on interface shear strength between offshore clay and steel plate. Although, sensitive and high plasticity offshore clay deposits are widely distributed in Malaysia and many other countries in the world, and steel is a vital construction material for many structures, research works on interaction between offshore clay and steel surface are ...