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Hard hard user interfaces.

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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...
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Alpha Tests

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With the help of Soy Productions i could get a small demo video. Due to table configuration problems a good recording couldn't be done for now at my end. Soon our multitouch wall will be up and running. Anyway,This is how camera manipulation would look as of now. Let's see if we come up with new ideas soon. Task TBD- Make touch sensitive drawing and camera manipulation modes switch to each other. Waiting for friend- Pecan to arrive soon.
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Approaching Final evals

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The "pencils down" date for GSoC is approaching fast. This is the core of the work during this time. 1# Code cleaning. Decided to keep the previous ruby tuio client experiments' work safe in the repository (pre-midterms GSoC work). It might be useful in the future development where better and refined gestures might be inculcated. 2# Code commenting wherever necessary 3# Documentation's skeleton done 3.a) Compile HowTo's 3.b) Readme's 3.c) Changelog 3.d) Etc.
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Drawing Mode

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Just figured out that drawing using gestures in a limited ability environment like SketchUp, is only possible in theory. Practicalizing it would be a waste of effort. If i go following the advice of NUI veterans Infrared Pen/Stylus should be the best way to draw in SketchUp. Design Wise it should look like this :-)
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First Gestures test

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That's how our first gestures tests came out as using TUIO simulator. The BSR watermark is from the ahh! propietary screen recorder software. Why isn't it Open Source!
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