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.
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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 performs gestures, while touch manipulates. Multiple users can sketch mathematical expressions (e.g. formulas, vectors, matrices, etc.) with digital pens on the interactive surface. These expressions are analyzed and interpreted using the StarPad SDK’s (from our friends at the Brown University) support for mathematics recognition. Pen and touch gestures can be used to manipulate the written expressions. In addition, expressions can be selected and moved by touch or pen input.
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 a public audience. In the attached video you can see some nice impressions from the Laval Virtual 2010.
(c) Photo by Jean-Charles Druais
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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 the hardware), the Austrian team will develop the applications and design the user studies. It is great that the lab will also get support from Inami, Nii, and Maki from the Keio University.
We are very happy to announce that the Media Interaction Lab got the Staatspreis Multimedia 2009 in the category Innovation for the project “CRISTAL”. Â CRISTAL is a multi-user tabletop experience which allows an easy interaction with multiple hardware devices.
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 RTT Contest this year.
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.
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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 interesting talks and presentation.
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 our face-to-face communication room concept with her expertise.
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 the School of Media Design at the Keio University (KMD), Japan. His research interest is human I/O enhancement technology including HCI and robotics.
