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Hard hard user interfaces.

Started as someone doing ActionScript in Macromedia Flash I got into Human-Computer-Interaction after watching Jeff's Hann's multi-touch work. That's the power of a really cool demo that inspired the birth of NUIGroup community which spawned 1000s of makers all around the world making their own projector camera multitouch systems. All of it became mainstream once Apple released the iPhone to the world, and also gave birth to my interest in human-centered engineering. I spent some 10 years after that playing with sensors, haptics, and gestural interfaces through multiple input modalities but nothing stuck as much as multi-touch did. Thanks to Apple's execution. Everyone's phone/tablet interaction is default multitouch. (unless you have a visual impairment). Primsense evolved into Kinect, then came Wiimote, Leap but nothing stuck.  for speech, it was Amazon's Alexa. Latest news , that its going to lose Amazon 10B.  Like I am writing this post through my keyboard a...

Sparsh : A touch sensitive desktop

Sparsh is a touch sensitive desktop for everyone which allows us, to stay in touch with our touches on a simple desktop. It works in same manner we can interact with all our stuff's every day, it just manipulate the digital contents of computer and gives us a virtual look... there will be a big range of software's which works on principal of Multitouch Soon a day will come when everyone is flushing out there desktop computer and installing a Multitouch screen

Woodwork Done

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With the help and suggestions of local carpenters we're now done with the woodwork of our table, a couple of modifications are yet to be done. Although everything now fits in well- the acrylic frame, the projector and the modded camera.