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News about the Media Interaction Lab
Europrix 2010 goes to NiCE Formula Editor
We are proud to announce that our NiCE Formula Editor has won the Europrix Multimedia Award 2010 in the category “Content Tools & Interface Design”. 50 nominated projects with more than 200 participants from 23 countries all over Europe took part at the Europrix Festival in Graz, Austria, hoping to win one of the coveted [...]
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 [...]
CRISTAL won Grand Prix at Laval Virtual 2010
We are happy to announce that CRISTAL won the Grand Prix du Jury at the Laval Virtual 2010. Laval Virtual is one of the largest Virtual Reality exhibitions worldwide and is hosted in Laval, France. Our team exhibited the CRISTAL installation for five days, not only to professionals but also for the first time to [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
CRISTAL @ Siggraph 2009
We are happy to announce that we will present our project CRISTAL at the Emerging Technologies at Siggraph 2009 in New Orleans. CRISTAL (Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces) provides an extreme simple user interface for controlling multimedia devices and home automation systems.
Impressions of CHI 2009
CHI 2009 was highly impressive this year and we presented two demos at the Interactivity session: FLUX table and our Occlusion-Aware Menu. Our first attendance to CHI was a good chance to introduce our work to the HCI community. We got some really good feedback about both of our projects. Furthermore, we were able to watch some really [...]
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 [...]
