Bill Buxton is the absolute expert for touch-related human computer interaction research. Bill Buxton’s impressive amount of publications has started around 30 years ago and have never ceased since then. Among other things he is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft and participates in the Microsoft Surface research. I especially like his research work about two-handed …
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Google Maps Multi-touch Actionscript Code [Update_3]
After I published my youtube video on the Google Maps multi-touch app I have had some demands for the source code of this Google Maps multi-touch Flash application. Hence, I have decided to make the source code of it publicly available on Google Code. You will find the sources on the mapstouch Google Code download …
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Digital Volvelles application video
Quite some time since the actual private view at the Mall Galleris in London I have managed to put a little video about our Digital Volvelles application online. A more detailed video is going to come but until then watch this video please:
Google Maps Multi-touch App
I’ve built a small Google Maps multi-touch app with Flex and Flash over the last days: It uses the Google Maps Flash API and the TUIO Actionscript classes and the Touchlib from the Nuigroup. The red stuff on the screen means that i am using the debug mode of Google Maps for Flash. That is …
A Multi-Touch Photo Browsing Application (with Source Code)
The Touchlib offers lots of Flash related possibilities to build your own multi-touch applications. There are even some demo applications included in the package in the code version of the Touchlib. Thus I took a demo photo application from them and replaced their Flickr images with mine and exchanged the whole mechanism for dragging and …
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Progress 2nd multi-touch table
My 2nd table now has got a lid and the paintwork has been done (the color is bright white). It looks really professional now. I updated my multi-touch table photoset on flickr:
Embed Illustrator Vector Graphics In Actionscript 3
There’s a really cool article about the embedding of resources in Actionscript 3 in Keith Peters bit-101 blog. If you’re using his technique you can get rid of that awkward Flash GUI and just develop Flash applications with Eclipse in combination with the Flex Builder plugin by Adobe (currently you can obtain a free license …
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TimeTube Article in the G.I.T. Laboratory Journal
Our article about the project TimeTube we’ve been developing since last year has been published by the G.I.T Laboratory Journal Europe in the current Laboratory Journal issue 7-8/2008. Feel free to download the article TimeTube – Assist Scientists to Enhance Laboratory Scheduling in PDF format.
My 2nd (so far unfinished) multi-touch table
(Update: The follow-up article can be found here.) Fortunately I’ve got some money from the Computer Science faculty of the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences to build another (better) multi-touch table. I decided to try Tim Roth’s DSI technology. By using this technology it should be possible to use objects on the table that can …
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Flash Actionscript 3.0 drawString equivalent [Update]
I’m coming from the Java world where you could ‘just’ draw Strings. However, in Flash it’s not as easy to actually draw a String on the screen. For that purpose I use following code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 …
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