Vote for OUI on Discovery Channel’s best in show!
Discovery Channel has chosen the Daily Planet segment about the work on Organic User Interfaces at Queen’s Human Media Lab into the top 15 best for this year. We’d really appreciate your help voting us into this year’s best of Daily Planet episode. Please vote by selecting “Flexible Computers” in the following webpage, and hitting the submit button, and please tell your friends and facebook buddies to do the same! Voting ends on Monday the 25th of May.
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The Daily Planet episode on OUI can be found at:
http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/clip162244#clip162244
Print issue of June Communications of the ACM online
Here is the print edition of the Communications of the ACM Special Issue on Organic User Interfaces. Courtesy of ACM, html versions of the articles have been made freely available at this site, for anyone to enjoy. For a table of contents, please refer to the sidebar on the right.
Filed under Blog | Comments OffDisplayObjects: Interactive Styrofoam Gadget Design Workbench
DisplayObjects, by Eric Akaoka and Roel Vertegaal at the Human Media Laboratory in Canada is an organic user interface for creating computer displays on arbitrary surfaces, such as pieces of model cardboard or blocks of styrofoam. It allows easy prototyping of hardware gadgets through software/hardware fusion. The system tracks the location of the model, as well as the finger, via markers tracked through computer vision, and renders a 3D software model of the object back onto the hardware model through projection [Site Link].
Filed under Blog | Comment (1)Gummi: First Flexible Computer
Gummi, designed at Sony Computer Science Laboratories by Carsten Schwesig and Ivan Poupyrev, simulated a credit-card size flexible computer, that could be used to, for example, navigate subway maps. A touch screen on the back allowed for positional input, while bending back and forth allowed for zoom operations [Site Link].
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