Big Ideas Fest Speakers

David Merrill

David Merrill

Building the future of play, Sifteo's first product is Siftables: a tabletop game system made of active physical+graphical tiles. Merrill is a graduate of the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab, where he studied with professor Pattie Maes and developed the first prototype of Siftables. His work explores how human interactions with computers can leave the limitations of the desktop interface behind, through the development of physical-digital tools that operate comfortably in our real-world environment to enable new forms of play, expressivity, problem-solving and collaboration. He has lectured in computer science at Stanford University and led music controller design workshops at the MIT Media Lab.