Organic User Interfaces

Oribotics by Matthew Gardiner

amanda — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:53:04 +0000

Vote for OUI on Discovery Channel’s best in show!

amanda — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:15:30 +0000

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.

http://www.discoverychannel.ca/dp/segmentselection/

The Daily Planet episode on OUI can be found at:
http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/clip162244#clip162244

ShadePixel (KAIST, South Korea)

amanda — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:40:41 +0000

Print issue of June Communications of the ACM online

amanda — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:45:37 +0000

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.

DisplayObjects: Interactive Styrofoam Gadget Design Workbench

admin — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:29:09 +0000

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].

Gummi: First Flexible Computer

admin — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:24:29 +0000

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].

PaperWindows: The First Foldable, Hi-Res Paper Computer

admin — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:15:21 +0000

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]

CMU Claytronics Concept

admin — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:44:53 +0000

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].

Sachiko Kodama’s Ferrofluid Sculptures

admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:56:25 +0000

The Ferrofluid dynamic sculptures by Japanese artist Sachiko Kodama dance fluidly along a programmable choreography. They are the first in a new category of fluid art forms capable of adopting shapes interactively, and a forerunner of kinetic displays to come that will project physical 3D shapes through molecular voxels (Moxels) made out of smartdust [Site Link].