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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 [...]
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 [...]
RTT Conference 2009 in Munich
Last week we went to the 10th RTT Conference in Munich. In this conference Realtime Technologies (RTT) and its partners presented their newest products in high-quality real-time rendering. Completely surrounded by really nice renderings of cars we presented a small multi-touch tabletop application for manipulating textures on 3D-models. In addition our project CRISTAL won the [...]
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 [...]
Masahiko Inami @ MIL
Professor Masahiko Inami will visit the MIL in Hagenberg next Monday (April 27th) and will give a talk with the topic “Towards X-Men Computing: Enhancement of Human I/O”. If technology becomes more transparent to the end user, in the future we can behave as if we have supernatural powers. Masahiko Inami is a professor in [...]
Stacey D. Scott @ Media Interaction Lab
Stacey D. Scott from the University of Waterloo visited for a week the Media Interaction Lab. During her visit, she taught the course “Interactive Environments” focusing on Collaborative Systems Design . Moreover, Stacey gave a highly interesting talk on “Collaborative Large-Screen Display Systems in Complex, Dynamic Team Environments”.
Ars Electronica Festival 2008
Being located near Linz, we of course enjoy the Ars Electronica Festival each year! The topic of this year’s festival was “A NEW CULTURAL ECONOMY – The Limits of Intellectual Property”, dealing with the freedom of information and copyright protection, big profit-making opportunities and the vision of an open knowledge-based society. We did not actively [...]
Mil on YouTube
After numerous comments, we have now decided to share some of our videos in this famous “YouTube” forum, we have heard so much about! You can find most of our videos on our user page! Please feel free to spread the word and (re)enjoy our work!
City Planning Space
On his way to the RTT Conference in Vienna, Daniel Leithinger came for a short visit to the Media Interaction Lab. While he was here he presented his current project called “City Planning Space” that he worked on at the IML. City Planning Space facilitates multiple input devices (Anoto pens and 3D-trackers) and multiple displays [...]
Flux 4 Friends
On of our Flux tables has set up at our partner lab in Magdeburg. Prof. Raimund Dachselt and his team gave us a warm welcome and together the multi functional table was installed in a newly established lab dealing with the magic of future interaction. In addition to the rear-projection setup also a top-projection table [...]
