Kimiko Ryokai & Justine Cassel

ANTS-CD¹: It's party time at Home Sweet Cube.

This lady with friend and dog's name is Kimiko Ryokai. She does pretty cool projects at MIT. She's from Tokyo and went to study Linguistics and Psychology at SUNY in Albany, N.Y., USA.

lngr had a link to the I/O Brush project (Kimo Ryokai, Stefan Marti, Hiroshi Ishii, Josh Monzon & Rob Figueiredo) a while ago. Goldchen also liked that painttool, it seems.

These projects are done in a group called Tangible Meida, something I like a lot. Check out StoryMat and CrossTalk.

(motzes has dug up a tool worked out by Jeff Han et alii at NYU that might hold even more promise and relies on a simple biometric technique well known in those circles called FTIR²).

Before joining the Tangible Media Group and after SUNY, Miss Ryokai finished her Masters study with the Gesture and Narrative Language Group led by professor Justine Cassell.

Now a full professor at Northwestern University in the departments of Computer Science and Communication Studies, and director of the interdisciplinary graduate program in Technology and Social Behavior, Mrs. Cassel's homepage is well worth a visit. Heir appearant to Adele Goldberg I

¹ Everybody got that now? It means "And Now To Something - Completely Different", which in turn is a quotation from the MPFC. ² Frustrated Total Internal Internal Reflection. Do not let that irritate you. Those Neural Network guys always use these strange humanizations for their simple primitive SBSes^{3 3} Sand Based Simulators