Cell Tango could be enhanced via aspects of TUI design. Obviously, Cell Tango is not a Tangible User Interface -- most simply because it is not tangible. It could be augmented in many ways, however, to be made tangible.
perhaps, there could be a tangible way of users adding photos to the project in real-time to see how that affected the webs of words and the various animations. perhaps adding a scanning station for photographs, or placing a photo on the screen and having that transpose into the cell tango.
perhaps the images on the screen could be manipulated by users. this could be done in a way similar to the Microsoft surface. users could move images around by touching/flicking them, to discover how animations would rearrange themselves.
perhaps the words on the screen could be manipulated by users, as well. this would be interesting, as users could see how the word webs change as more words are added or as words are taken away.
perhaps users could add just words in real-time, and see what the system grabs images from the database as well as from Flickr.
a benefit of making Cell Tango a tangible interface would be enhancing the idea that Cell Tango is to be customized to a community. it could take that one step farther, allowing an individual or individuals to create their very own personal Cell Tango.
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