2011-08-30

Exploring Information Spaces by Using Tangible Magic Lenses in a Tabletop Environment

Upplagd av Patrik B




The magic lens can provides 3d explorations of rich datasets. By moving the magic lens through the volume, the lens can be volumetric, layered, zoomable, or temporal information spaces.
It is just like a special eye to look at the data world!

Technical setup:

- Camera: detect the paper

- Projector: project both on the table and the paper


The device is easy to use. By moving a tracked sheet of paper, the user can explore more information on the tabletop display. Users don’t even have to use fingers to touch the paper. They can control the paper by their natural movement.


It provides a new method of exploring the inside world. Traditionally, we use pictures, models, computer models to let people know what it looks like inside the things. This design makes it possible to see any cut-plane slice of the thing conveniently.


It can be apply to explosion or education. It is a promising device!


Motivation: To solve the challenge of exploring large information spaces on interactive surfaces.







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Jabberstamp

Upplagd av Fredrik Persson

From an early age children are used to creating people and places with implied context in their drawings. Learning how to contextualize an oral or written story without using images is a much slower learning process. Jabberstamp is a tool that gives children the opportunity to communicate sound through their drawings. By pressing a special rubber stamp on their drawing they can record sound. The sounds can then be played back by putting a pen with a trumpet on the stamp. This can be an effective tool for children on different development levels to communicate with each other.

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RayMatic Group 4

Upplagd av Johan

RayMatic – Emetional aspect in hci

In the RayMatic project they build an thermostat display that looks like a frame with a human face that’s react emotional on temperatures in the room with facial expressions and gestures instead of the classic numeric displays. If it´s warm he will fanning himself, if you touch the person on the shoulder you get the setting mode.




It´s interesting to use the emotional feelings in human computer interaction.


A youtube video demonstration
The acm article

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Group 4 - Touch and copy, touch and paste

Upplagd av Sarah



Digital media and files today are most commonly moved from one digital device to another by using USB drives, external hard disks or Dropbox. SPARSH is a project exploring a new interaction method which allows users to seamlessly transfer data between digital devices in an intuitive way. Data is moved by touching the screen of the device from which the user wants to move the data and then touching the screen of the device to which the content should be transferred - a simple copy and paste procedure.



The project is interesting as touch screen technology is fairly widespread and as argued it could be considered an intuitive mean of interacting with different devices.





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Adaptive Mouse - a deformable computer mouse achieving form-function synchronization

Upplagd av Patrik B


The adaptive mouse uses a hall-effect sensor along with a magnet and a piece of foam(for deformation properties). The sensor then measures the magnetic field and translates it to a voltage value which depends on the distance to the magnet. This is then send as a digital signal to a micro-controller unit to determine the users hand configuration to adapt the properties of the mouse.






Motivation: This project is interesting because of how sensors and material is being combined to create a mouse that is not only fully functional, but can also change shape according to the users preference and sense if the user is left- or righthanded to adapt accordingly.

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Manual deskterity: an exploration of simultaneous pen + touch direct input

Upplagd av Patrik B

The change to an approach of interactivity were users interacts directly with a display (ipod, iphone etc) rather than indirectly (mouse and keyboard) is quite challenging. This is microsofts take on how to interact directly with a display through the technique “pen + touch”.





Motivation: It’s an interesting thing for artists and designers to interact with a display in a more creative way than maybe a regular mouse-pen or just a mouse and keyboard.

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Tactile Display for the Visually Impaired Using TeslaTouch

Upplagd av Sarah

We all take it for granted using the Internet for browsing after information and we use touch screens and smart phones in our everyday life. Individuals with visibility impairments does not have the same options as most of us do.

TeslaTouch is a technology designed to provide tactile sensation to moving fingers on touch screens much like the Braille (the "dots") does on normal paper. Below is a conceptual image of a TeslaTouch system:


TeslaTouch uses no motors or moving parts, instead relying on a conductive layer coated with an insulating layer. The finger rests on the insulating laying and, when a voltage difference is applied between the finger and the conductive layer an attractive force is induced. This attractive force can be manipulated by using different levels of voltage and it yields more friction for the finger.


This product can one day be a helpful tool for visibility impaired individuals.

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