Speakers Profile
HIROSHI
ISHI
Associate Director of MIT Media Laboratory
Director of Tangible Media Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hiroshi Ishii is the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor at MIT Media Lab. He founded the Tangible Media Group in 1995, pioneering Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) with his Tangible Bits (1997) and Radical Atoms (2012) visions. His work bridges science and art, shaping HCI with Shape-Changing UIs and programmable materials.
His Tangible Bits research led to the ACM TEI Conference (2007) and exhibitions at Ars Electronica, ICC, and major design venues. He earned tenure at MIT (2001), joined the CHI Academy (2006), and received the SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award (2019). Named an ACM Fellow (2022), Ishii previously led CSCW research at NTT, inventing TeamWorkStation (1990) and ClearBoard (1992). His greatest treasure is a 1997 email from Mark Weiser about his Tangible Bits paper.
