Display Blocks: a Set of Cubic Displays for Tangible, Multi-Perspective Data Exploration
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Pla i Conesa, Pol; Maes, Patricia
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This paper details the design and implementation of a new type of display technology. Display Blocks are a response to two major limitations of current displays: dimensional compression and physical-digital disconnect. Each Display Block consists of six organic light emitting diode (OLED) screens, arranged in a cubic form factor. We explore the possibilities that this type of display holds for data visualization, manipulation and exploration. To this end, we accompany our design with a set of initial applications that leverage the form factor of the displays. We hope that this work shows the promise of display technologies which use their form factor as a cue to understanding their content.
Date issued
2013-02Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media LaboratoryJournal
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction - TEI '13
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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Pla, Pol, and Pattie Maes. “Display blocks.” In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction - TEI 13, 307. Association for Computing Machinery, 2013.
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9781450318983