HCI, User-Interface, Tabletop Display, Digital Whiteboard, Interactive Surface, Augmented Surface Research
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.
In conjunction with DEXA 2009 we are organizing the first International Workshop on Small and Large interactive Interfaces for Data Exploration (SLIDE). The workshop will be held during the DEXA 2009 conference in Linz, Austria, from 31 August to 4 September. In this workshop, the latest research and new paradigms of Exploring Data using alternative interface devices, including hardware and software issues, will be explored and discussed.
More information on the workshop and the call for papers can be found at the SLIDE’09 website.
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”.
We presented FLUX at the Medienmesse in Vienna at the Wohnzimmer 2012 lounge that was initiated by the ORF Wien, ZIT and echo Medienhaus. Our partner team7 provided additional furniture for the FLUX presentation. It was a good chance to introduce FLUX to the graphics and media advertising community. We showed the flexibility and different application areas for brainstorming and presentation tasks.
Great news: our proposal for the Austrian Research Center “NICE, Natural user Interfaces for Collaborative Environments”, has been accepted. For the next 3 years we will focus on novel large surfaces and new interaction techniques which are going to be embedded in our daily-life environment (e.g. living room, conference room etc.). We will primarily focus on new interaction methods and build new hardware. This research will be supported by FFG and by the following partners: AMS Engineering (Austria), Ferrari (Italy), Microsoft (Austria), Nortel (Canada, USA), RTT (Germany), Sony DADC (Austria), Team7 (Austria), voestalpine Group-IT (Austria). Moreover, the following companies expressed their interest to support this project as well: Natural User Interface (Sweden), vodafone (Germany). If you have a passion for this topic and if you are interested in joining the team, please send an email to me.
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