OverviewDefeXtiles are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpens...
Dimensions of human movement that are absent from the eye, such as pressures, muscular tensions, and external features, are represe...
'Shells, often found on seashores, exemplifies the absence of existed lives. What if a presence dwells in to animate them?'Proj...
HelioZZZ is an opacity changing eye mask that wakes you up with natural sunlight when you want it. The mask warms your eyes to help you f...
Orbiting is a cooperation between artist Thom Kubli and Prof. Hiroshi Ishii, featuring the Tangible Media Group. It is a novel approach t...
"Telepresence'" is raising a fundamental question about our existence. "I can see you, I can hear you, but where are you?"The Covid-19 pa...
By Ken Nakagaki, Joanne Leong, Jordan L Tappa, Joao Wilbert, and Hiroshi IshiiOverviewProject HERMITS explores a way to greatly...
By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way t...
We developed a concept of transformative appetite, where edible 2D films made of common food materials (protein, cellulose or starch) can...
The project investigates how to make origami structure with inflatables with various materials. We introduce a universal bending mechanis...
As part of human evolution and revolution, food is among the earliest forms of human interaction, but it has remained essentially unchang...
HydroMorph is an interactive display based on shapes formed by a stream of water. Inspired by the membrane formed when a water stream hit...
Shape-changing interfaces give physical shape to digital data so that users can feel and manipulate data with their hands and body. Combi...
ChainFORM is a modular hardware system for designing linear shape-changing interfaces. Each module is developed based on a servo motor wi...
In nature, hair has numerous functions such as providing warmth, adhesion, locomotion, sensing, and a sense of touch, as well as its well...
Introducing TRANSFORM, a shape-changing desk. TRANSFORM is an exploration of how shape display technology can be integrated into our ever...
TRANSFORM fuses technology and design to celebrate its transformation from still furniture to a dynamic machine driven by a stream of dat...
Shape displays can be used to render both 3D physical content and user interface elements. We propose to use shape displays in three diff...
Radical Atoms is our vision of interactions with future materials. Radical Atoms goes beyond Tangible Bits by assuming a hypothetical gen...