A three year Transatlantic Exchange Partnership project entitled LEIF: A Multicultural Exploration into Research and Education for Surface Computing has been approved by the European Commission (EACEA) for funding. Four Canadian and four European Universities will work together. 64 students and 16 researchers will be given the opportunity for a multi-month stay at a research institution in the other continent. Besides supporting students’ mobility and establishing strong research links, a new curriculum in the area of Surface Computing will be established. With it, the exchange programm aims at a novel and very promising way of Human Computer Interaction. Multitouch, digital pen and gestural interaction on interactive surfaces such as smartphones or tabletops will play an ever increasing role in the near future. If you are interested in Tabletop research and enrolled at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, please send an email to Michael Haller.
The Media Interaction Lab.
