Project

Recompose

Groups

Human beings have long shaped the physical environment to reflect designs of form and function. As an instrument of control, the human hand remains the most fundamental interface for affecting the material world. In the wake of the digital revolution, this is changing, bringing us to reexamine tangible interfaces. What if we could now dynamically reshape, redesign, and restructure our environment using the functional nature of digital tools? To address this, we present Recompose, a framework allowing direct and gestural manipulation of our physical environment. Recompose complements the highly precise, yet concentrated affordance of direct manipulation with a set of gestures, allowing functional manipulation of an actuated surface.