Physical interaction design DH2400

We choose the following projects from the portofolio at MIT Tangible Media Group:

1. Jabberstamp - http://www.rafelandia.com/jabberstamp/

With Jabberstamp, children can create and listen to sounds, and integrate the sound with their drawing. The product allows them to record and play the sound in very simple way, by clicking a pin device with a microphone the sound is recorded and associated with that point, and by pressing with a device resembling a trumpet on the same point the sound is played back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIe-XDHcsOE

2. Robo Topobo - http://tangible.media.mit.edu/projects/RoboTopobo/index.php

Robo Topobo is a "physical game" for children where a robot is controlled by a game controller. By moving some parts of the robot following a certain pattern, those movements can be recorded, and later on played back. With this kind of behaviour is very easy to make the robot to move, without any programming skills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuWOQUEax4M

3. Audiopad - http://tangible.media.mit.edu/projects/audiopad/

Audiopad is an instrument that transforms movements and positioning into music. A better way to create music is to use a mixer program. By using physical objects that represents different instruments makes much easier to experiment different ways to create music by trying different combinations of sounds and instruments.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~jpatten/audiopad-small-web.mov

4. I/O Brush http://tangible.media.mit.edu/projects/iobrush/

This project was already presented by our colleagues from Group 4.

http://tmg-video.media.mit.edu/iobrush/iobrush_350x240.mpg