Physical interaction design DH2400

(Víctor Valle)

We quickly saw today this video about Sufu Interactive wall. Actually, it was too quick and I think we couldn't understand it properly. Here is the video:

But what I would to remark is that this kind of technology is already in use by high level football teams. Players react quicker when training in this kind of rooms. Borussia Dormunt uses it and the effect on their players is high. They reached Champions League final last year. I wouldn't say it is only by this fact, but I would say that they perform better since they have it.

This is a project from Disney Research for recognizing gestures on real object.
This technique can be used on the human body and even inside a liquid. They have an amazing 99% of accuracy for detecting gestures.
In particular I loved the way the interact with the music player and the detection of position of a person that is viewing TV.

http://www.gold.ac.uk/media/History%20Table%20Cloth.pdf

(Victor Valle, Vincent Boumard, Hao Pei Chu & James Lomas)

Many interesting innovative projects have limited value over time. They are interesting and entertaining, even exciting, but after 5 or 10 minutes interest is lost. This is a less exciting project, but one that can be enjoyed maybe even for years as a decoration in the home.

(Victor Valle, Vincent Boumard, Hao Pei Chu & James Lomas)

Hi!
I'm here to comment a little bit on this project: Beyond, that is basically a pen for drawing in 3D. You can use this pen on top of a table-screen to draw, and when you push the pen and collapse it, the drawing takes depth, so it feels like if you were traversing the screen to draw beyond it. How? The pen is collapsible and it has a camera inside, so it can "sense" how retracted the pen is. The closer to the screen the camera is, the deeper you will draw.

I think this is a very nice concept for 3D direct manipulation because:

• The user can use a pen as if he was drawing "normally" in 2D, there's less mapping between commands and actions
• He has live feedback on the model he's drawing
• It has a very straight affordance for it's use: you press deeper, you draw deeper.
• The bi-manual interaction is also pretty straight forward: the non-dominant hand is the tool itself, as gestures can be used to apply restrictions on the drawings.

[Sam Sam, Rafel Ridha]

This products is a touch screen with regulating dynamic physical buttons on it. It basically regulates the air preassure of small pockets of stretchable material that is on top of the touchscreen. We think this is very cool and even though it is in a prototype-phase we believe this will be the future of how we interact with smartphones.

(Victor Valle, Vincent Boumard, Hao Pei Chu & James Lomas)

This Myo Bracelet comes from Thalmic Labs. They have invented it in 2012 and they tested with some developers. They are building more and more units to start selling it in early 2014.

MYO is a gesture-based control device that connects the real and the digital world. The bracelet measures the electrical activity of the muscles, it can sense rotations and movements in the hand.

This device brings the possibility to control remote devices with natural gestures of your arm and hand.

We think it is quite cool and the window of applications for it can be really wide: home issues, industry controllers, gamers...

(Lidija Murselovic & Henrik Bygdeman)

This is a commercial project done by kollision for launching a new smart car. Depending on how the people around the car walk and stand, the vehicle's route changes. Read more about it here

(Lidija Murselovic & Henrik Bygdeman)

This is a project that was made in Germany 2012, to celebrate Luminale, which is an international Festival of Lighting Culture.
What they did was that they displayed light on a building, which in fact was interactive. With the help from your smartphone you could point it in the direction you want to move the light on the building. Depending on the direction you move your phone the light will also move and it will look like as you are "moving" the light.
It's fascinating how they can use a normal building wall and people walking by to create something out of the ordinary. It is not something that is used for need, but to create a city with interesting aspects and just for fun.
Read more about it here
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Description and video can be found at: http://www.gizmag.com/nymi-identity-bracelet/28922/

http://vimeo.com/50854686

"An environment for creative collaboration is significant for enhancing human communication and expressive activities. We introduce Second Surface, a novel multi-user Augmented reality system that fosters a real-time interaction for user-generated contents on top of the physical environment. This interaction takes place in the physical surroundings of everyday objects such as trees or houses. Our system allows users to place three dimensional drawings, texts, and photos relative to such objects and share this expression with any other person who uses the same software at the same spot. Second Surface explores a vision that integrates collaborative virtual spaces into the physical space. Our system can provide an alternate reality that generates a playful and natural interaction in an everyday setup."-

Shunichi Kasahara, Valentin Heun, Austin S. Lee and Hiroshi Ishii / 2012

http://www.instructables.com/id/turn-signal-biking-jacket/