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NiCE Formula Editor
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 [...]
2 CHI full papers!
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 [...]
Impressions of ITS/Tabletop 2009
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 [...]
SIGGRAPH Emerging Technology Award
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.
World record sized Anoto pattern
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 [...]
Vice-chancellor playing with FLUX
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 [...]
Media Interaction Lab @ MIT, CHI 2009, Harvard
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 [...]
Best Paper Award @ ACE 2008
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 [...]
Get the new Development Kit based on Anoto pens
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 [...]
Mobilkom Austria is supporting the Media Interaction Lab
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.
