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Look Into the Future with Autodesk Labs: Multi touch wall (Part II)

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 […]

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date March 31, 2008
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Doug Look's Demo on Touch Wall

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.

Tags Autodesk, Autodesk Design Review, Autodesk Labs, Computer, Demos, Design, Design Software, Designer, Doug Look, gestural interfaces, Human-computer interaction, Infrastructure, Interaction Design, interface, Jeff Han, Media, multi-touch, researcher, Tangible Interfaces, TED conference, YouTube

By Itamar Medeiros

Originally from Brazil, Itamar Medeiros currently lives in Germany, where he works as VP of Design Strategy at SAP, where he leads the design vision for the entire Human Capital Management product line, ensuring cohesive product narratives and establishing best practices.

Working in the Information Technology industry since 1998, Itamar has helped truly global companies in multiple continents create great user experience through advocating Design and Innovation principles. Itamar has also served as a juror for prestigious design competitions and lectured on design topics at universities worldwide.

During his 7 years in China, he promoted the User Experience Design discipline as User Experience Manager at Autodesk and Local Coordinator of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) in Shanghai.

Itamar holds a MA in Design Practice from Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK), for which he received a Distinction Award for his thesis Creating Innovative Design Software Solutions within Collaborative/Distributed Design Environments.

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[…] 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 […]

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