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Tangible Objects: Connecting Informational and Physical Space

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Information technology has changed the role space and time plays in our lives. The Internet connects people that are geographically far apart, Timbuktu is only a mouse click away, virtual reality replaces the real space with a life-like simulacrum, and augmented reality smears an informational coating over real space.

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Andersen, P.B., Nowack, P. (2002). Tangible Objects: Connecting Informational and Physical Space. In: Qvortrup, L., Jensen, J.F., Kjems, E., Lehmann, N., Madsen, C. (eds) Virtual Space. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0225-0_9

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