In this project we present the NiCE Formula Editor, 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 support for mathematics recognition.
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The Media Interaction Lab will present two full papers at CHI 2010. In the first paper “The NiCE Discussion Room: Integrating Paper and Digital Media to Support Co-Located Group Meetings” we introduce a novel digital meeting room design, the NiCE Discussion Room, which integrates digital and paper tools into a cohesive system with an intuitive pen-based interface. This design solution provides groups with a flexible design solution that enables them to create, access, and share information and media from a variety of sources to facilitate group discussions. The paper describes the design solution, along with results from a user study conducted to evaluate the usability and utility of the system.
The second paper “NiCEBook – Supporting Natural Note Taking” we present a digital paper notebook that supports taking, structuring and reusing notes. Through a study of note-taking habits, we observed that different strategies are used to organize and share notes. Based on these findings, we developed a design for a notebook that combines different approaches to better support these activities. The details of our design were informed by an additional online survey. With NiCEBook, we present a solution that combines the flexibility and simplicity of taking notes on paper with the benefits of a digital representation.
Last week we attended the International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Tabletops 2009 in Banff/Canada to have a look at the latest developments in Surface and Tabletop Research. We also presented a paper about our tabletop remote control CRISTAL and gave a tutorial about input technologies for large displays. The conference took place in the impressive Banff Springs Hotel which is placed in a quite nice landscape as you can see in the picture.
Best Emerging Technology Award for the project CRISTAL at the 36th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH 2009). An interesting article has been published in WIRED, Engadget, and Engadget Japan. A nice Youtube video can be found here.
We proudly present the world’s largest Anoto pattern! 28 Anoto pages (each A0 size) are stitched to create a single large Anoto pattern that covers a table surface of 5.3 x 3.5m. The pattern is overlaid on top of a large scale city map. Produced for the Ars Electronica GeoCity exhibition, multiple users are able to interact with this map to learn about the city of Linz. Despite the large dimensions of the table, the high accuracy of the Anoto tracking is guaranteed across the whole surface. Further large scale Anoto surfaces are already in production by our team.
Vice-chancellor Josef Pröll was visiting the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences. During his visit, he also played with our interactive table, FLUX, which has been developed in cooperation with Team 7 and voestalpine group IT GmbH. The new version of the FLUX table allows both multi-touch hand input as well as pen input with high accuracy and high performance.
The Media Interaction Lab will be in Boston (MIT, CHI 2009, Harvard), presenting two Interactivity papers. Both papers deal with multi-touch displays and demonstrate new interaction paradigms using both hand- and pen-interaction techniques. This year, CHI will be hosted in Boston (April 4 - 9). The interactivity exhibition will run this year Monday during the CHI reception (6:30-10), Tuesday from 2:30pm-6pm, and Wednesday from 2:30pm-6pm. Moreover, there are planned two talks:
Interactivity: Tuesday, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM:Â Occlusion-Aware Menu Design for Digital Tabletops
Interactivity: Tuesday, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM:Â FLUX, A Tilting Multi-Touch and Pen Based Surface
MIT Meeting: Thursday, 6:00PM-9:00PM
Harvard Meeting: Friday, 2:00PM-5:30PM
We are happy to announce that the paper “IncreTable, a mixed reality tabletop game experience” got the best paper award at the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2008). The paper was written in collaboration with Prof. Masahiko Inami and Maki Sugimoto (both are now working at Keio University), with Prof. Woontack Woo and Kyungdahm Yun.
The Interactive Surface Development Kit is a complete development kit based on the digital pens from Anoto. The Anoto-based pens scan a dot pattern upon motion and build a 2D representation of the drawn trajectory with a very high degree of accuracy. Based on this Development Kit, you can develop your own large surfaces (tabletop/digital whiteboard). You can order the new development kit here.
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Mobilkom Austria is supporting the Media Interaction Lab. The lab got hardware, which will be evaluated within the NiCE research center. The overall goal is to find intuitive interfaces not only for large displays (e.g. tabletops, interactive whiteboards), but also for small devices.
