Hiroshi Ishii

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Hiroshi Ishii, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the father of a new and rapidly growing field of research called Tangible Media.

Hiroshi Ishii started the Tangible Media research group and their ongoing Tangible Bits project in 1995, when he joined the MIT Media Laboratory as a professor of Media Arts and Sciences. Ishii relocated from Japan's NTT Human Interface Laboratories in Kyoto, where he had made his mark in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in the early 1990s. [1]

He currently teaches the class MAS.834 Tangible Interfaces at the Media Lab.

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