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 …

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 …

‘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 …

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.

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 …