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web.media.mit.edu - 2/13/2009

Siftables research summary (video)

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Imagine overturning a container of nuts and bolts, then looking through the resulting pile for a particular item. Or spreading photographs out on a tabletop and then beginning to sort them into piles. During these activities we interact with large numbers of small objects at the same time, and ...

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