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March 7, 2006
Etech06 day 2 Jeff Han
Jeff Han
NYU CS
Rear projected drafting table as multitouch sensor
Most touchboards can only register one touch
His solution: low cost, high resolution, scalable.
“it just does the right thing – there’s no interface – you can ask as if this were a physical thing”
Multitouch=multiperson - but interface disappears (Rael comes up and plays with display too)
Good for child, grandparent, people new to computing culture – especially when we’re introducing tech to people
{Jeff is manipulating photo application}
Take advantage of kinesthetic memory
Zoom in and out and move around a real infinite desktop
Then Jeff does the same thing with video – all 186 channels of Time Warner video
Vs Minority Report – that’s a gestural interface [not tangible] so you have problems differentiating between surfaces, which is disturbing to user [which is why the theremin is so hard to learn and play!]
Jeff shows the earth and mapping interface – tapping into different data sets
Jeff shows emulated keyboard – “but it’s dangerous to start emulating right away” -- there are more possibilities
Lots of entertainment applications, but Jeff is more interested in creative
Like “virtual puppeteering” (lots of math underneath to do what’s physiccally plausible)
Create “playing in parallel” behaviors
Posted by egoodman at March 7, 2006 10:23 AM
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