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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...

Stood First - this time its BITS Pilani

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We showcased how multitouch technology is going to change the way we interact with machines. Thanks to NUIGroup community , we could showcase some applications done by Seth Sandler and Lawrence Muller at Apogee 2009 - held annually at BITS Pilani. In addition to this how to make a Flash App from scratch - with TUIO data ( OSC implemented) sent by Touchlib. Here are some pics from the event :-)

Visual Timeline for GSoC 2010 :-)

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his is second iteration of the Google Summer of Code 2010 Timeline contributed to Google by the NUIGroup community :-)

Google SoC is on!

yoo ! Google Summer of Code list was announced yesterday , and its great to see NUIGroup on it. Well i'll be going with my own idea this time. Have been playing around and exploring with the RUBY API and C++ SDK that comes with Google Sketchup. Let's see how it goes, I just posted a request for ideas and suggestions on NUIGroup at http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/4801/ ..