I really like Donald Norman’s essay »Natural User Interfaces Are Not Natural« that he wrote for the ACM interactions magazine. In this essay Norman shares his view on the role of natural user interfaces (for him represented, e.g., by »speech, gesture, or the tapping of the body’s electrical signals for “thought control,”«) in terms of interaction with future computer systems. Read the rest of this entry »
I am going to present a few projects on my blog which I like. This post introduces the Umami project of Florian Cannon, Robert Fläck, Florian Gondolf, Mischa Korn, Daniel Pehnec, Sarah Martens, Tara Staton from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. umami proposes the the integration of multi-touch surfaces in kitchens of the future for the support of cooking.
As already mentioned in this post, we presented Vispol at the booth of the state of Hessen/Germany at the fair “Moderner Staat” in Berlin on 24. and 25. November 2009. Vispol has been shown on the round multi-touch and TUI table from Sensory Minds.
Here are a few photos from the fair. Please apologize the poor quality of the photos as my camera did not see the sense in making proper use of its auto-focus functionality.
SurfaceToTuio is available as source code only (there is no executable). However, you can just upload the SurfaceToTuio folder to your Surface, doubleclick the Visual Studio project and compile it in the Surface’s Visual Studio right away.
I am going to present a few projects on my blog in which I collaborated in one or the other way. This post introduces Fabio Campos‘s VotkA (Visualization of the k-means Algorithm) project of the course Visualization in the Master’s studies of Computer Sciences at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences. Fabio’s project is a 3D visualization of the k-means algorithm applied to Fisher’s dataset. The user can interact with the visualization via reacTIVision/Fiducials or the OSCRemote application on the iPhone/iPod Touch.
Figure 1: 3D scatter plot of Fisher’s dataset assorted with the k-means algorithm
In VotkA users can interact with a three-dimensional cluster analysis visualization via a Tangible User Interface (TUI), the iPhone app OSCRemote or both in parallel. The TUI is provided by a small box that is technically based on Seth Sandler’s cheap multi-touch pad (you can see the box in the youtube video at the end of this article). On top of the box fiducials from reacTIVision are being tracked. Whenever a fiducial is being recognized a TUIO message with the fiducial’s id, position and rotation will be sent to VotkA. Read the rest of this entry »