Perry Cook’s principles of NIME and revisions:
Principles for Designing Computer Music Controllers (CHI-2001)
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Re-Designing Principles for Computer Music Controllers (NIME 2009)
organic user interfaces (pls see the articles linked on the sidebar)
http://www.organicui.org/
Hiroshi Ishii:
Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces
between People, Bits and Atoms
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Radical Atoms: Beyond Tangible Bits