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For over a hundred years, good typists didn't 'hunt and peck' but instead relied on keeping their fingers on the home row. This technique relies on physical buttons, but with on-screen keyboards used on tablets and other touch screen devices touch typists have a very hard time. [Zach] is working on a new project to bring a chorded keyboard to these devices called ASETNIOP. Instead of training … [Read more...]
[Sprite_tm], a name many of you will recognize from these pages, has wasted no time in replicating the latest cool thing in a much simpler fashion. En Garde is a touch sensor that can detect up to 32 different points of contact on... whatever you use as the surface. He couldn't sit idly by and let the Disney funded one from yesterday keep the spot light. As you can see in the video, it works … [Read more...]
This year at the CHI conference in Austin, [Munehiko Sato], [Ivan Poupyrev], and [Chris Harrison] out of the Disney research lab in Pittsburgh demonstrated their way to make touch sensors out of anything. Not only to they suggest using the surface of your skin to control cell phones and MP3 players, they're also able to recognize touch gestures, like poking or grasping an object. That sounds a … [Read more...]
[Bastian] sent in a coffee table he built. This isn't a place to set your drinks and copies of Make, though: it's a multitouch table with a 3D display. Since no description can do this table justice, take a look at the video. The build was inspired by the subject of this Hackaday post where [programming4fun] was able to build a 'holographic display' using a regular 2D projector and a Kinect. … [Read more...]
If you're going to build a giant touch screen, why not use an OS that is designed for touch interfaces, like Android? [Colin] had the same idea, so he connected his phone to a projector and a Kinect. Video is carried from [Colin]'s Galaxy Nexus to the projector via an MHL connection. Getting the Kinect to work was a little more challenging, though. The Kinect is connected to a PC running … [Read more...]
Even though giant multouch display tables have been around for a few years now we have yet to see them being used in the wild. While the barrier to entry for a Microsoft Surface is very high, one of the biggest problems in implementing a touch table is one of interaction; how exactly should the display interpret multiple commands from multiple users? [Stephan], [Christian], and [Patrick] came up … [Read more...]
Finally [Michelle Annett] can talk about her super secret project she did at Autodesk Research. Medusa, as [Michelle]'s project is called, is a Microsoft Surface that has been fitted with 138 proximity sensors. This allows the Surface to sense users walking up to it, and detect users hands and arms above the table top. Multiple users can be detected at the same time, and the left and right … [Read more...]
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