Last week we attended the International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Tabletops 2009 in Banff/Canada to have a look at the latest developments in Surface and Tabletop Research. We also presented a paper about our tabletop remote control CRISTAL and gave a tutorial about input technologies for large displays. The conference took place in the impressive Banff Springs Hotel which is placed in a quite nice landscape as you can see in the picture.
On the first day Thomas presented the paper “CRISTAL: A collaborative home media and device controller based on a multi-touch display“. In his talk he primarily focused on the user interface of CRISTAL and the results of a pilot study. The slides are available for download.
The topic of Peter’s tutorial was “How to develop large-scale interactive surfaces“. He provided an overview of many different touch and pen tracking technologies and also provided some insights of our two tables FLUX and Light. His slides are not available yet, because we plan to publish the results in a journal survey, but you can send him an email for getting more information about that.
Talks & Projects we liked:
- Websurface: Philip Tuddenham presented their work on bringing the web browser to the tabletop.
- FluidPaint: Using real wet brushes on a FTIR table to draw is a really nice idea. Also the rendering engine for the drawn images looks very realistic.
- Muscle sensing: Sometimes it is important that you know which finger is touching the surface. Hrovje Benko showed how they used muscle sensing to distinguish between the different fingers.
- TUIO 2.0: In his talk Martin Kaltenbrunner showed the current status of the new TUIO protocol, which might be very useful in the future.
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