{"id":224,"date":"2022-08-16T15:34:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/?page_id=224"},"modified":"2022-08-16T15:54:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:54:50","slug":"18-connecting-physical-and-digital-worlds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/chapters\/18-connecting-physical-and-digital-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"18: Connecting physical and digital worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-276\" src=\"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/chap-18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"106\" \/>In language we link our thoughts to the physical world through names, symbols and pointing.\u00a0 Similarly there need to be means for the digital and physical worlds to connect.\u00a0 In this chapter we will look at the various ways in which this is managed from markers, such as the ubiquitous QR code, inserted into the physical world, to digital traces of physical phenomena, such as biometrics or image recognition.\u00a0 Some of the marks in the environment are purely digital, such as NFC tags in clothes or credit cards, invisible to the human eye, but capable of tracking a device or person.\u00a0 Others are more apparent and indeed may be aesthetically pleasing as well as functional.\u00a0 Devices around us may be isolated, but increasingly talk to one another creating a web of sensing, or maybe surveillance.\u00a0 Crucially once linked to digital representations they allow the physical world to affect the digital.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Keywords:<\/span> physical-digital, tangible computing, tangible interaction, distributed computing, internet of things<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In language we link our thoughts to the physical world through names, symbols and pointing.\u00a0 Similarly there need to be means for the digital and physical worlds to connect.\u00a0 In this chapter we will look at the various ways in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":192,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-224","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","","tg-column-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions\/277"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}