Building a Bidirectional Bridge Between the Digital and Physical Worlds

We humans today are dual-citizens inhabiting both the digital and physical worlds; Both offer us unique advantages. The digital world offers us advantages such as unlimited access to information and expansion of human capabilities, while the physical world has long been providing us structural affordances, functional mechanisms, rich sensations, and much more. Currently, there exists a gap between the two. We constantly find ourselves having to frequently switch contexts to interact with either. Within this thesis, I propose building bi-direction interactions between the two worlds so that we can leverage advantages of both worlds simultaneously. I demonstrate this vision with an interactive system and a device each seamlessly bring advantages of one world into another, leveraging computational techniques and inspirations from design.