[Relief at Ars Electronica]

Relief:

Relief is an actuated tabletop display, which is able to render and animate three-dimensional shapes with a malleable surface. It allows users to experience and form digital models like geographical terrain in an intuitive manner. The tabletop surface is actuated by an array of 120 motorized pins, which are controlled with a platform built upon open-source hardware and software tools. Each pin can be addressed individually and senses user input like pulling and pushing.

Publications:

Leithinger, D. and Ishii, H.
Relief: a scalable actuated shape display.
In Proceedings of the Fourth international Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied interaction (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, January 24 - 27, 2010). TEI '10. ACM, New York, NY, 221-222.
(DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1709886.1709928)

Awards:

- Siggraph Student Research Challenge 2010 (Second Place)

Demos:

- Ars Electronica Festival 2009
- TEI 2010

Press:

- Make Blog: Relief: 3D interactive maps
- Eyebeam reBlog: 3D Relief Interface
- Eclectica: MIT Tangible Media Group: Relief
- Dailymotion: TEI 2010 / Relief: a responsive 3D surface
- PSFK: 3D Relief Interface
- eckiller.com: Relief: 3D interactive maps

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