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The tangible user interface and its evolution

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 51, Issue 6

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1349026.1349034

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Users sculpt and manipulate digital information throughsuch tangible media as clay, sand, and building models, coupled with underlying computation for design and analysis.

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