Prof. Hiroshi Ishii

Tangible Bits, the vision of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), seeks to realize seamless interfaces between humans, digital information, and the physical environment by giving physical form to digital information and computation, making bits directly manipulable and perceptible. The goal is to blur the boundary between our bodies and cyberspace and to turn the architectural space into an interface.

To pursue the vision of Tangible Bits, Professor Ishii founded the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab in the end of 1995.

He has done extensive research on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). His team at NTT Human Interface Laboratories invented TeamWorkStation and ClearBoard. He has been active in a variety of academic, industrial design, and media art communities including ACM SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, IDSA, and Ars Electronica.