Illuminating clay: a 3-D tangible interface for landscape analysis

By B. Piper, Carlo Ratti, Hiroshi Ishii. International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2002

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The tangible user interface and its evolution (2008, methodology): “32 June 2008/Vol. 51, No. 6 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM Illuminating Clay.”
Opportunities and Challenges for Data Physicalization (2015, neutral): “physical objects as controls, while the data itself is visualized on a screen [72] or top-projected [49, 73].”
Tangible bits: beyond pixels (2008, background): “Examples are Illuminating Clay [ 37 ], and SandScape [27].”
Radical atoms: beyond tangible bits, toward transformable materials (2012, neutral): “Examples are Illuminating Clay [13] and SandScape.”
A taxonomy for and analysis of tangible interfaces (2004, neutral): “A TUI example of this is the ‘‘Illuminating Clay’’ [45] system.”
Combining multiple depth cameras and projectors for interactions on, above and between surfaces (2010, background): “Illuminating Clay [20] uses laser-range-sensing technology to facilitate manipulations of a morphable projected surface, allowing the user in one example application to directly specify a virtual terrain map.”
A widget framework for augmented interaction in SCAPE (2003, methodology): “[22] used a semi-immersive, projective workbench for Illuminating Clay, an augmented landscape analysis package.”