This is a nice new project. Sharam Izadi et al. employ the Kinect to reconstruct arbitrary surroundings in 3D by using a Microsoft Kinect depth camera.
Category Archives: Multi-Touch
Donald Norman’s »Natural User Interfaces Are Not Natural«
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 …
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Throng – a Cross-Platform Multiplexer for Tuio Messages and Packets
Throng (Tuio multiplexeR that crOps and Globalizes) provides a Tuio multiplexer with added benefits written in Java.
Preview: New Multi-Touch Gestures on iPad iOS 4.3
Microsoft Surface 2 Preview
I am Stunned
umami: Multi-Touch and Tangible User Interfaces for Future Kitchens
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 …
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SurfaceWare – Special Glasses to Recognize if Glass is Empty via Multi-touch TUI Tracking
Fancy: Special drinking glasses, which allow to recognize the amount of fluid in the glasses.
Touchlib Config.xml Blobconfig Parameters, What They Do and What They Do not Do
Recently, I have been working on the Touchlib in order to refine some things, which always bothered me and to add some things of which I think that they would come in handy e.g. a full-grown Pointgrey Flycapture2 filter that allows me to edit the Pointgrey Firefly MV camera’s settings in a way that I …
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A Few Impressions From Vispol on the Round Table at the Fair “Moderner Staat”
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 …
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Vispol at the “Moderner Staat” Fair in Berlin from 24. – 25. November 2009
My software Vispol will be shown at the booth of the state of Hessen/Germany at the fair “Moderner Staat” in Berlin on 24. and 25. November 2009. It will be shown on the new really cool round [!] multi-touch and TUI table from sensory minds. I will be there on both days.