Most current multi-touch devices use direct input, especially larger surfaces. In this context, we asked how much the advantages of multi-touch depend on the directness of input. An indirect multi-touch device has several potential advantages, such as interaction from a…
Category: Projects
Multiuser-aware Surface Computing
The above video shows a working prototype which allows users to identify by simply putting down their hands on the surface. This is related to a topic I became recently more and more interested in: the topic of multiuser-awareness, or…
FTIR Compliant Surface Tutorial
Inspired by a post on NUI Group Community Forums by Tinkerman I decided to give FTIR (to be accurate, a combination of DSI and FTIR.) a try, creating my first owncompliant surface. The described technique of applying a layer of silicone to…
PhoneTouch
PhoneTouch is a novel technique for integration of mobile phones and interactive surfaces. The technique enables use of phones to select targets on the surface by direct touch, facilitating for instance pick&drop-style transfer of objects between phone and surface. The…
Portable Multi-touch Table
I designed and built this table to demonstrate PhoneTouch, a novel interaction technique for integrating mobile phones and interactive surfaces (presented as technote and demo at UIST 2010, and as demo at ITS 2010). As the conferences required some travelling,…
Distributed Backup System
Every node of the distributed backup system provides a certain amount of storage space on the local hard drive, that can be used to store backup data. Files are encrypted and distributed over multiple nodes.
“Star” – Dynamic File Associations
Often, similiar sets of documents are in use at the same time while working on a particular task. Here, we propose a dynamic desktop concept which dynamically estimates the degree to which documents belong to a working set. This enables the user to quickly find and re-open relevant documents.