The advent of object-tagging on the Microsoft Surface, has opened up new methods of interacting with the touch environments. Although the major limitation is the unavailability of requisite physical objects at the time of gesture creation. The gesture developer has to answer certain questions when he creates the gesture library for the user: 1) How …
Category Archive: User interface
Jun
07
Using Physical Objects As Time Sliders
Working on my current project I had a very useful idea crossing my mind. When users need to visualize data on charts and if they have to move through the x-axis, as in the following case (See Figure 1) Fig 1. Here we have a time dependent data. On a multi-touch screen we can have …
Aug
13
Picture Sharing with the Microsoft Surface
Imagine spending your vacation in the Swiss Alps. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could share these pictures among your friends in a easy and cool way? Imagine a big touch table where you can show around your pictures, manipulate, zoom them and pass them on to other users. Well, this has now become possible …
Jun
29
Inflatable mouse – thin or not
A pointing device, such as a mouse, touchpad or the pointing stick, has become an essential component of the modern computer system. As the number of portable computer users steadily increases so does the need for a compact and highly portable pointing device. The problem evident with existing pointing devices is that an increase in the portability of the device often …
Jun
25
A new kind of Embedded Computer
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a device that allows a user to transform virtually any surface into a multitouch computer. The name of this new technology is Project LuminAR, which is basically an embedded computer in a lamp. The LuminAR bulb contains a pico projector, a camera, and a computer with …
Apr
26
3D Input Interface for Mobile Devices
A recent post on Slashdot led me to this interesting video produced by the folks at Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory at the University of Tokyo. Using their Vision Chip, a CMOS image sensor with a parallel image processor, they created an in-air, finger motion based interface for a mobile phone. While I do not believe that …
Apr
01
Bret Harsham talk at UNH
A couple of weeks ago our ECE department hosted Bret Harsham of Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) as a part of the ECE900 graduate seminar. Bret gave a very interesting lecture about the ways of shortening voice dialogs through using a contextual push-to-talk button. The title of the lecture was “Contextual Push-to-Talk: Shortening Voice Dialogs …
Aug
13
Summer internship at MERL
This summer I have had a great opportunity to be an intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) in Cambridge, MA. This is not only a great prospect for my professional career, but also a chance to experience how working in a real company looks like. MERL is a daughter company of the Mitsubishi Electric …
Aug
12
Microsoft's Vision
Microsoft is either loved or hated by most of society these days. But no matter where you stand on the company, you have to agree that the vision they show in the video below is amazing, and displays great contributions to society. The video is an envisioned future of 2019, just ten years ahead. It’s …
Aug
04
Towards Storytelling with Geotagged Photos on a Multitouch Display
For the majority summer, the bulk of my work on the multi-touch table has been working with Ankit and Oskar on the Google Earth application, in which we have overlayed geotagged photos with additional orientation data as 3-D models. We have added the ability to control the Google Earth application with the multi-touch table using …