Project Number
- 217
Title
- inTouch
Description
- Tele-touch interface for remote interpersonal communication.
Contact
- Scott Brave
Affiliation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Address
- MIT Media Laboratory
- E15-468C, 20 Ames Street
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- E15-468C, 20 Ames Street
- brave@media.mit.edu
WWW
- http://tangible.media.mit.edu/projects/intouch.html
Year
- 1998
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 98 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- The goal of inTouch is to bridge the gap of traditional communication (through sound or image) by creating a physical link (touch) between two separated users. "Touch is a fundamental aspect of interpersonal communication."
- "inTouch consists of two separate identical objects, each consisting of three cylindrical rollers mounted on a base. The two objects behave as if corresponding rollers are physically connected, but in reality, the objects are only virtually linked."
- Sensors and computer-controlled rollers synchronize the respective states.
Sight
Sound
Touch
- inTouch roller-based communication conveyors
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Secondary
- 311 - communication
Remarks
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