Leithinger is a researcher in the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, a group led by Professor Hiroshi Ishii, that explores the Tangible Bits and Radical Atoms visions to seamlessly couple the dual worlds of bits and atoms. Daniel's research focuses on actuated tangible interfaces and interactive shape displays. Together with his colleagues, Daniel has created award winning shape displays, including the projects “Relief”, “Recompose”, “Sublimate”, “inFORM” and “Transform”, which have been presented at academic conferences like TEI, UIST, CHI, and SIGGRAP