I’m currently playing around with several visualization toolkits resp. visualization frameworks. There seem to be some very nice products on the (open source) market. I’m focussing on the Flash AS3 toolkit flare, because the multi-touch libraries are very nicely integrated with Flash. However, flare seems to be just an AS3 implementation of Prefuse, which seems …
Author Archives: Johannes Luderschmidt
‘Fun toys or maybe the next big technology thing’
Anja Merret , the mother of a collaboration partner of mine in the Digital Volvelles multi-touch project, Niqui Merret, wrote a blog entry about us while we were tinkering with the Nintendo Wiimote for our project (some time ago in April). I really like that part: ‘The three whiz-kids converted our lounge/diningroom into a studio …
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Multi-touch hardware will come. But no one knows what to do with it.
Noch ist die Software allerdings zum Teil recht eingeschränkt und Forscher und Ingenieure sind sich längst nicht sicher, wie sie die großen Touchscreens am besten ausnutzen.
Our University’s PR for the LabAutomation Travel Award Palm Springs for TimeTube
Drei Studierende der Fachhochschule haben den "Travel Award" der "Association for Laboratory Automation" (ALA) gewonnen und reisen im Januar in die USA. Axel Emmer, Johannes Luderschmidt und Frank Masur werden vom 26. bis 30. Januar 2008 an der LabAutomation2008 teilnehmen und dort ihre Arbeiten präsentieren. Auf der alljährlich im kalifornischen Palm Springs stattfindenden Konferenz nehmen …
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Volvelles Impressions from Final Degree Show 2008 MA Communication Design
We presented our Digital Volvelles multi-touch application during the ‘Final Degree Show 2008’ of the MA Communication Design study programme at Central Saint Martins London College of Art and Design. View the Multi-touch Volvelles exhibition Flickr set.
Portfolio Website for the Designer Benjamin Bartels
For the website benjamin-bartels.com I have done all the frontend (xhtml, css, js) and the backend programming. One part of the website is Benjamin’s CV: In another part Benjamin presents images and videos of portfolio projects that he has done so far. Those images and videos can be browsed easily with a paging navigation: To …
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Our TimeTube poster at Laboratory Automation ’08 fair in Palm Springs
I’ve been awarded a travel award by the Association of Laboratory Automation as a representative for our 3D interactive visualisation project TimeTube. Here’s a link to the poster program PDF of that fair: Laboratory Automation 08 :: Poster Program
Make Ends Meet: Collaboration Opportunities in Second Life
This report has been a coursework assignment for my classes in “People & Technology” at Royal Holloway Universiy of London. Introduction:This report presents an overview of Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE) as a field of Computer Mediated Collaboration. CVE research activities will be introduced and their findings will be described. CVEs have been intensively researched since …
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Technological Foundations Of Second Life
This report has been a coursework assignment for my classes in “Networked Services” at Royal Holloway University of London. Introduction: Recently Second Life (SL) has been intensively discussed. SL is a virtual world where (geographically dispersed) users usually represented by an avatar interact with other users, objects or agents by means of a client called …
Digital Volvelles project
For my master’s thesis I’m doing some research work in the field of multi-touch applications. I’m trying to find out when multi-touch actually makes sense and what you have to keep in my mind when you’re designing and implementing a multi-touch application. In order to accomplish this work I need to design, test and evaluate …