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.
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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].
Filed under Blog | Comment (0)PaperWindows: The First Foldable, Hi-Res Paper Computer
Designed by David Holman and Roel Vertegaal at the Human Media Lab in Canada, PaperWindows was the world’s first foldable paper computer. PaperWindows simulates hi-res, full-color e-ink display through projection. Shape is tracked using a Vicon computer vision system, and projections of real computer windows are corrected for the shape of the paper before being projected back. The experience is one of true electronic paper. Folding, bending and earmarking can be used to page down and otherwise navigate documents. [Paper Link]
Filed under Blog | Comments (2)CMU Claytronics Concept
Concept video by CMU’s Computer Science Department showing a future display in which molecular voxels, or Moxels, build up display elements physically, in 3D [Site Link].
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