<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px; caret-color: rgb(57, 54, 79); color: rgb(57, 54, 79); font-family: "Neue Plak", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.933333396911621px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Join us today for an exciting lecture with Hiroshi Ishii, Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT!</span></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div><img apple-inline="yes" id="CB1ED669-11FF-479F-9EF1-E2EFAD297E3B" class="" src="cid:9FCFC3B5-718B-4DF8-B227-815184D127D4@hsd1.il.comcast.net"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><b class=""><font class="" style="font-size: 14px;">When</font></b><div class="gmail-l-mar-bot-6 gmail-g-group gmail-l-sm-mar-bot-4"><div class="gmail-structured-content gmail-g-cell-md-1-1 gmail-g-cell-10-12 gmail-g-cell"><div class="gmail-has-user-generated-content"><div class="gmail-l-mar-vert-6 gmail-structured-content-rich-text gmail-l-align-left gmail-structured-content__module gmail-l-sm-mar-vert-4 gmail-text-body-medium"><font class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Monday, November 30, 2020 3:00pm CST (</span></font><a href="https://youtu.be/XIy-uo6Ja-w" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">public livestream</a><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"> or zoom for </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uchicago-hci-speaker-series-hiroshi-ishii-mit-media-lab-tickets-128936539661" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">registered attendees</a>)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><font class="" style="font-size: 14px;">How to watch<br class=""></font></b></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class=""><b class="">Livestream on Youtube</b> (no login required, no zoom required): </font><a href="https://youtu.be/XIy-uo6Ja-w" class="">https://youtu.be/XIy-uo6Ja-w</a></span></div><div class=""><font class=""><span class=""><b class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Zoom: </b><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">register </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uchicago-hci-speaker-series-hiroshi-ishii-mit-media-lab-tickets-128936539661" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">here</a> <span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">and we will email you all the details. </span></span><br class=""></font></div><p class=""><font class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><strong class=""></strong></font></p><p class=""><font class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><strong class="">Title: </strong><i class="">Making Digital Tangible: The Battle Against the Pixel Empire</i></font></p><p class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class=""><strong class="">Abstract: </strong></font></span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Today's mainstream Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research primarily addresses functional concerns – the needs of users, practical applications, and usability evaluation. Tangible Bits and Radical Atoms are driven by vision and carried out with an artistic approach. While today's technologies will become obsolete in one year, and today's applications will be replaced in 10 years, true visions – we believe – can last longer than 100 years.</span></p><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Tangible Bits seeks to realize seamless interfaces between humans, digital information, and the physical environment by giving physical form to digital information and computation, making bits directly manipulatable and perceptible both in the foreground and background of our consciousness (peripheral awareness).Our goal is to invent new design media for artistic expression as well as for scientific analysis, taking advantage of the richness of human senses and skills we develop throughout our lifetime interacting with the physical world, as well as the computational reflection enabled by real-time sensing and digital feedback.<br class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail-l-mar-vert-6 gmail-structured-content-rich-text gmail-l-align-left gmail-structured-content__module gmail-l-sm-mar-vert-4 gmail-text-body-medium"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Radical Atoms leaps beyond Tangible Bits by assuming a hypothetical generation of materials that can change form and properties dynamically, becoming as reconfigurable as pixels on a screen. Radical Atoms is the future material that can transform its shape, conform to constraints, and inform the users of their affordances. Radical Atoms is a vision for the future of Human- Material Interaction, in which all digital information has a physical manifestation, thus enabling us to interact directly with it.<br class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail-l-mar-vert-6 gmail-structured-content-rich-text gmail-l-align-left gmail-structured-content__module gmail-l-sm-mar-vert-4 gmail-text-body-medium"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">I will present the trajectory of our vision-driven design research from Tangible Bits towards Radical Atoms, illustrated through a variety of interaction design projects that have been presented and exhibited in Media Arts, Design, and Science communities. These emphasize that the design for engaging and inspiring tangible interactions requires the rigor of both scientific and artistic review, encapsulated by my motto, “Be Artistic and Analytic. Be Poetic and Pragmatic.</span><p class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class="">Bio:</b> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Hiroshi Ishii is the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory. After joining the Media Lab in October 1995, he founded the Tangible Media Group to make digital tangible by giving physical form to digital information and computation. Here, he pursues his visions of Tangible Bits (1997) and Radical Atoms (2012) that will transcend the Painted Bits of GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces), the current dominant paradigm of HCI (Human-Computer Interaction).</span></p><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">He is recognized as a founder of “Tangible User Interfaces (TUI),” a new research genre based on the CHI ’97 “Tangible Bits” paper presented with Brygg Ullmer in Atlanta, Georgia, which led to the spinoff ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) from 2007. In addition to academic conferences, “Tangible Bits” was exhibited at the NTT ICC (2000) in Tokyo, Japan, at the Ars Electronica Center (2001-2003) in Linz, Austria, and many other international arts & design venues. For his Tangible Bits work, he was awarded tenure from MIT in 2001, and elected to the CHI Academy in 2006.<br class=""><br class="">Prior to joining the MIT Media Lab, Ishii led the CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work) research group at NTT Human Interface Laboratories Japan from 1988-1994, where he and his team invented the TeamWorkStation (1990) and ClearBoard (1992). He received a B.E. degree in electronic engineering, and M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 1978, 1980 and 1992, respectively.<br class=""><br class=""></span><p class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class="">Host:</b> Pedro Lopes</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>