HCI, User-Interface, Tabletop Display, Digital Whiteboard, Interactive Surface, Augmented Surface Research
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Being located near Linz, we of course enjoy the Ars Electronica Festival each year! The topic of this year’s festival was “A NEW CULTURAL ECONOMY – The Limits of Intellectual Property”, dealing with the freedom of information and copyright protection, big profit-making opportunities and the vision of an open knowledge-based society. We did not actively participate in the festival program this year, but here are some impressions and pictures from the festival.
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