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is a Japanese computer scientist. He is a professor at the
Ishii was born in Tokyo and raised in
MAS.834 Tangible Interfaces
at the Media Lab.
is a Japanese computer scientist. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of th ...
. Ishii pioneered the Tangible User Interface
A tangible user interface (TUI) is a user interface in which a person interacts with digital information through the physical environment. The initial name was Graspable User Interface, which is no longer used. The purpose of TUI development ...
in the field of Human-computer interaction with the paper ''"Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces between People, Bits and Atoms"'', co-authored with his then PhD student Brygg Ullmer.
Biography
Ishii was born in Tokyo and raised in Sapporo
( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous city ...
.
He received B.E. in electronic engineering
Electronics engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering which emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current ...
, and M.E. and Ph.D. in computer engineering
Computer engineering (CoE or CpE) is a branch of electrical engineering and computer science that integrates several fields of computer science and electronic engineering required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer engineers n ...
from Hokkaido University
, or , is a Japanese national university in Sapporo, Hokkaido. It was the fifth Imperial University in Japan, which were established to be the nation's finest institutions of higher education or research. Hokkaido University is considered ...
in Sapporo, Japan.
Hiroshi Ishii founded the Tangible Media Group and started their ongoing
Tangible Bits project in 1995, when he joined the MIT Media Laboratory
The MIT Media Lab is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT's Architecture Machine Group in the School of Architecture. Its research does not restrict to fixed academic disciplines, but draws from ...
as
a professor of Media Arts and Sciences. Ishii relocated from Japan's NTT
Human Interface Laboratories in Yokosuka
is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
, the city has a population of 409,478, and a population density of . The total area is . Yokosuka is the 11th most populous city in the Greater Tokyo Area, and the 12th in the Kantō region.
The city ...
, where he had made his mark in
Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
(CSCW) in the early 1990s. Ishii
was elected to the CHI Academy The CHI Academy is a group of researchers honored by SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group in Computer–Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery. Each year, 5–8 new members are elected for having made a significant, cumulative co ...
in 2006. He was named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to tangible user interfaces and to human-computer interaction".
He currently teaches the clasMAS.834 Tangible Interfaces
at the Media Lab.
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Computer programmers Japanese computer scientists Human–computer interaction researchers Ubiquitous computing researchers MIT School of Architecture and Planning faculty Hokkaido University alumni MIT Media Lab people 1956 births Living people People from Tokyo Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery {{Japan-scientist-stub