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Daniel is working for the Mouse
Daniel just finished his Master at the MIT Media Lab and moved to Pittsburgh. He is now working for Mickey Mouse =). Actually, he is working together with Ivan Poupyrev at Disney Research. Before moving to Disney, Ivan was working for Sony CSL in Tokyo – together with Jun Rekimoto. In fall, Daniel will go [...]
Doktor Peter Brandl
We are really proud to make a really big announcement: Dr. Peter Brandl has successfully defended his PhD Thesis titled “The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of an Interactive Meeting Room” and has received the Dr. from the Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. The whole Media Interaction Lab congratulates to this success.
MIL @ SIGGRAPH 2010
We will present the “NiCE Formula Editor” at SIGGRAPH 2010. In this talk, we present a system, which recognizes handwritten formulas to provide in situ computation and visualization. Our editor uses a novel hardware setup, suitable for use as a desktop or whiteboard that disambiguates pen and multi-touch input. In our interface, the pen writes and [...]
MIL is working together with CUTE Center
The Media Interaction Lab is now working together with the Keio-NUS CUTE Center. For the next three years (starting in February, 2010) the lab will send students to Singapore for working on next generation ambient displays. We will mainly focus on flexible displays using shape memory alloy material. Together with the team in Singapore (which focuses on [...]
2 CHI full papers!
The Media Interaction Lab will present two full papers at CHI 2010. In the first paper “The NiCE Discussion Room: Integrating Paper and Digital Media to Support Co-Located Group Meetings” we introduce a novel digital meeting room design, the NiCE Discussion Room, which integrates digital and paper tools into a cohesive system with an intuitive [...]
Staatspreis Multimedia 2009
We are very happy to announce that the Media Interaction Lab got the Staatspreis Multimedia 2009 in the category Innovation for the project “CRISTAL”. CRISTAL is a multi-user tabletop experience which allows an easy interaction with multiple hardware devices.
SIGGRAPH Emerging Technology Award
Best Emerging Technology Award for the project CRISTAL at the 36th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH 2009). An interesting article has been published in WIRED, Engadget, and Engadget Japan. A nice Youtube video can be found here.
Vice-chancellor playing with FLUX
Vice-chancellor Josef Pröll was visiting the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences. During his visit, he also played with our interactive table, FLUX, which has been developed in cooperation with Team 7 and voestalpine group IT GmbH. The new version of the FLUX table allows both multi-touch hand input as well as pen input with [...]
Stacey D. Scott @ MIL
We are happy that Stacey D. Scott will visit the lab (April 27 – May 1). Stacey is assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, focusing on developing technology that enhances human-human interaction in both face-to-face and distributed environments. During her visit, we will mainly focus on setting up a new EU-Canada exchange program and improve [...]
Media Interaction Lab @ MIT, CHI 2009, Harvard
The Media Interaction Lab will be in Boston (MIT, CHI 2009, Harvard), presenting two Interactivity papers. Both papers deal with multi-touch displays and demonstrate new interaction paradigms using both hand- and pen-interaction techniques. This year, CHI will be hosted in Boston (April 4 – 9). The interactivity exhibition will run this year Monday during the CHI [...]
