This week will become a great success for the Media Interaction Lab:
Jakob is currently presenting our our interactive game Comino at Laval Virtual 2008. Comino is a tabletop game inspired by the Incredible Machine. It provides a multi-modal interaction based on a bi-directional projection tabletop, digital pens and custom-made physical objects, while attracting users for an active participation in creating content which diffuses the boundary between the real and virtual world. Kyungdahm Yun (GIST), Maki Sugimoto, and Masahiko Inami are supporting this project.
Moreover, our interactive table FLUX has been selected as one of the three winners of this year’s RTT Emerging Technology Contest. We are also happy that Daniel Leithinger, who is currently working at NUS, has been selected as a winner. The award ceremony will take place during the 9th RTT Conference in Vienna (April 10-11, 2008). The 9th RTT Conference is a platform for professional high-end 3D visualization. The historic ambience of Vienna’s Hofburg Imperial Palace host to this year’s summit.
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Cebit, an annual trade show for information and telecommunications technology, was the second destination on our trip to the north of Germany. Jakob spent one day wandering around looking at the bleeding edge of IT-technology presented in over 20 exibition halls. Continue reading to see more pictures and interesting links.
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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 featuring 1080p full HD-top projection will be installed in the lab. Continue reading to see more images of the installation.
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From February 18 to 20 the research-community for Tangible User Interfaces came together at the 2nd conference on Tangible Embedded Interaction in Bonn, Germany. Matt Jervis from University of Waikato and Thomas from the MI-Lab presented the results of their work on enhanced filing folders and cabinets called “Aroo - Smart Folders“. One of the conference highlights was the keynote talk by Hiroshi Ishii presenting the vision behind his work and that it might effect people in 200 years (see picture in more…)
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From February 5-7, we will present the latest result of the Media Interaction Lab at Austria’s Trade Fair for Information Technology and Telecommunication (ITnT).
Make sure coming to the exhibition. You will enjoy Flux, a hybrid between interactive table and whiteboard, at the Microsoft booth right in the center of hall A, Messezentrum, Vienna.
Interactive, multi-touch devices are rapidly increasing in popularity across many industries. Flux allows multiple modes of interaction in a variety of configurations, allowing increased flexibility, usability and productivity. Flux’s application interface is automatically optimized for the intended use depending on its orientation. Flux can be used as a sketch board, a discussion table or a white-board. Transformation between different orientations is single handedly achieved easily and elegantly.
Published by atomas on January 31, 2008
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From Feb. 5-7, 2008, the Media Interaction Lab will present a brand-new interactive table and whiteboard at the Austrian exhibition ITnT, Vienna. You will find our device at the Microsoft booth in the corner “Innovation Microsoft”. This table has been developed together with the furniture company Team 7. The project is also supported by voestalpine Informationstechnologie, Nortel, and AMS Engineering.
Nortel is working with the Media Interaction Lab to study remote conferencing solutions of the future based on multi-touch and pen-based interactive collaboration techniques.
On December 17, 2007 Raimund Dachselt gave a presentation about “Three Dimensional Interaction Techniques and Zoomable User Interfaces for Mixed Reality Applications”. Currently, Raimund is an associate professor at the University of Magdeburg. During his visit at the Media Interaction Lab, we decided to work together on new collaborative tabletop applications. More details about his talk can be found here.
Published by atomas on November 30, 2007
in MIL.
This week we got our hands on the brand new Toshiba ex20 short-throw projector to test it in a rear projection setup. Some facts about the projector: XGA, 130% lens offset, ~0.68 throw-ratio (distance-to-image-width), 2300 Ansi lumen, DLP.
The test results were quite good. Because of the high lens offset it’s easy to use in combination with a mirror. The mirror and projector can be simply mounted in a angle of 90°. Furthermore, the projected image was really good. Especially, the usual DLP-”rainbow/flickering” was not strongly visible. At least not for our human eyes.
A drawback we figured out is the chroma error of the lens. At the top of the image the blue/yellow distortion is about the size of one pixel as it is visible in this picture. After some more tests we figured out that the yellow color is really nice after all. The test images yellow just wasn’t saturated enough.
This week will become a great success for the Media Interaction Lab:
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