The project of Designer Frantz Lasorne combines the joys of virtual reality, and tangible toys. Using Augmented Reality Tangible User Interface via head-mounted glasses, and old toys, a new environment is created that allows childs to play new games. Read More…
This demo — from Pattie Maes‘ lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry — was the buzz of TED. It’s a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine Minority Report and then some. Read More…
Even though the technology has been around for decades, only now are we starting to see mass production and adoption of touchscreen and gestural devices for the public. Jeff Han’s influential 2006 TED demonstration of his multitouch system, followed by the launches of Nintendo’s Wii, Apple’s iPhone, and Microsoft Surface, have announced a new era of interaction design, one where gestures in space and touches on a screen will be as prominent as pointing and clicking. Read More…
Watch this demo — done by Sinisa Kolaric, PUC-Rio — of an early prototype of a human-computer interface for spatial manipulation of 3D objects, using bare (i.e. unmarked and uninstrumented) hands.
Hand positions, as well as hand gestures, are recognized and tracked by a system consisting of an inexpensive stereo pair of overhead web-cameras, and of software based on the Viola-Jones detection method and KLT feature tracking.
Watch Brian Mathews, Vice President, Autodesk Labs, working with Autodesk Design Review on a Jeff Han’s (TED conference luminary) Perceptive Pixel Multi-touch device. Read More…
As interaction designers working within agile teams, Jeff White and Josh Unger have used a design studio approach to user interface design on five separate occasions over the past year in order to establish design direction during early development cycles and provide the design vision for multiple sprints. In their talk at IxDA | Interaction ‘08 Conference, they describe their experience with the merger of user centered design into agile (team) development practice as manifest in a one day design studio. The evolution of one design using the design studio process is presented, and benefits and challenges to a design studio approach are discussed. Read More…
Doug Look from Autodesk Labs experiments with Autodesk’s design software on a Multi-Touch Wall device, produced by Perceptive Pixel and invented by researcher and (TED conference luminary) Jeff Han. Multi-touch human-computer interfaces may dramatically change how products, infrastructure, and buildings are designed.
The video allows you to imagine new ways to interact with large displays and multi-touch interfaces and inspires a discussion on what might, in the not-so-distant future, dramatically change how products, infrastructure, and buildings are designed.
Doug Look from Autodesk Labs experiments with Autodesk’s design software on a Multi-Touch Wall device, produced by Perceptive Pixel and invented by researcher and (TED conference luminary) Jeff Han. Multi-touch human-computer interfaces may dramatically change how products, infrastructure, and buildings are designed.
As you view the demo, imagine that you and your team of designers stand before a huge screen that acts like an intelligent whiteboard. With Autodesk Design Review, you can review each part of a model and interact with it directly. No keyboard or mouse needed. Multi-touch devices, combined with Autodesk software, have the potential to make design creation and collaboration much easier in the future.
