Components Overview

The mediaBlock physical framework is composed of four main groups:

Containers are the already mentioned wooden blocks. In order for them to be identified by computers, they were equipped with an electronic device storing either an URL to the actual media or a numeric unique identifier.

Sources physical devices accepting mediaBlocks (e.g. whiteboards, computers, video recorders, etc.). The Sources are used to bind a Container to the media.

Displays are used to visualize the ``content'' of the blocks.

Manipulators such as the media sequencer (see Figure 2), are tangible user interfaces which enable the sequencing of media elements.