pymt demo reel from Thomas Hansen on Vimeo. With PyMT there is a new kid in town for visual multi-touch interaction frameworks, which is based on the scripting language Python and connects to TUIO producers like the Touchlib, reacTIVision or Touchsmart TUIO. Currently, the most multi-touch applications seem to be implemented in Flash AS3. Flash …
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Touchsmart TUIO from Georg Kaindl
Georg Kaindl, the guy who has written the Mac OS X multi-touch tracking software Touché has published Touchsmart TUIO. This is a piece of software, which produces TUIO messages on HP Touchsmart PCs (and any other NextWindow frame). Thus, existing TUIO (multi-touch) applications like those from the nuigroup (which you can e.g. find here) can …
TUIO 1.0 Protocol Specification
Finally, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona guys around Martin Kaltenbrunner released a special page for TUIO that explains the protocol in more detail and with some examples. In the past it had not been that easy to extract all necessary information from their TUIO paper. Just in time, before they will hopefully release TUIO …
Vispol Tangible and Multi-Touch Interface Video
This video presents the results of the Bachelor thesis of Frederic Friess at the Vislab of the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences. I have been Frederic’s mentor under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Doerner for this work.
Pf Design Media Installation
I helped Sensory Minds to build an interactive multi-touch and tangible media installation for a Werkschau of students from the Hochschule Pforzheim. Graduates are represented by objects that are provided with a fiducial on the underside and a picture of the work on the upper side. As soon as the object is added to the …
Vispol Multi-Touch Video
This video demonstrates the fundamental multi-touch functions of Vispol. The demonstrated functions contain the creation and modification of persons and objects and connections. Additionally, examples for the application of the layout functions in Vispol are being introduced. Click here for further information about Vispol. You can try out the mouse version of Vispol here.
My Master’s Thesis Project: Vispol – An Interactive Scenario Visualization
As part of my Master’s thesis with the title Conception, Realization and Evaluation of Multi-Touch Interfaces for Interactive Visualizations, there has been the goal to create an interactive visualization that can be used via multi-touch. Finally, this visualization should be evaluated, which means it should be thoroughly tested and there should be some results in …
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Nice: Microsoft’s 2019 Future Vision Montage
A few Multi-Touch Impressions from the Cebit ’09
At the Telekom booth there has been a long kind of bar multi-touch table. It is not rectangular but a curve. However, the quality of the projection has not been even as the creators of this table used different projections and did not get the projection illumination even. The application has been quite simple: Photo …
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Setting the Width and Height of an Object in Flex to 100% with Actionscript
Today I had the problem that i needed to create a Flex element by hand and apply to it a width of 100%. This goes as easy with MXML as this <mx:VBox id="wrapperBox"><mx:UIComponent width="100%" height="100%" id="elementXYZ"></mx:VBox> But you cannot code this to achieve the adding programatically with Actionscript: var elementXYZ:UIComponent = new UIComponent(); elementXYZ.width = …
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