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PINS push in and POUTS pop out: creating a tangible pin-board that ejects physical documents

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There is an asymmetry in many tangible interfaces: while phicons can be used to manipulate digital information, the reverse is often not possible - the digital world cannot push back. We describe a tangible pin-board that pushes back by physically ejecting paper documents when they are digitally deleted. This is realized using pouts, addressable pin-like devices that communicate with a Pin&Play board and that can eject themselves by contracting an internal Muscle Wire actuator to trigger a mechanical latch. To demonstrate and begin to evaluate the technology we have developed an initial application of pouts involving a game where online players vote to eject physical pictures from a pin-board.

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CHI EA '05: CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 2005
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ISBN:1595930027
DOI:10.1145/1056808
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