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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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ConceptS: Our new Multitouch Wall

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Quite a long time since we didn't show our work done in pre-summer-holidays time at IIT delhi's Design lab. Here's a sneak peek into the multitouch wall done by Sparsh team during their IIT Delhi stay. Hail NUI :) The upcoming video will show some custom applications with object marking.
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Precoding updates

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1. Code Repository setup at Google Code 2. Recently I tried out Colin Harris's Ruby TUIO client from , it took me a little longer time (more than expected) to figure out if its working since I was using Adobe Air based SimTouch.air and socketserver executable to do my tests- which didnt work with our Ruby Client. Though later it responded perfectly with ReactiVision TUIO Simulator 1.4 . I could print the TUIO messages :-) 3. Yet to figure out how we're going to implement the Ruby Client within GoogleSU's interface, I am doing my experiments around Google SU right now. Since I am a bit n00bish with the Ruby API's application with networking, for now not very sure how it'll be loaded INTO the GoogleSketchUp , though i've to try :-) 4. For now I am wondering if we should really go on and apply multitouch to drawing in Google SketchUp , since Sketchup alredy allows to draw using Single Touch. Ofcourse the Multitouch gestures can be technically implemented here,...
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Proposed an idea for GSoC 2009

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Proposed an Idea for Google Summer of Code to port Google SketchUp to Multitouch . Users would be able to do 3D modeling with Simple and intuitive gestures. An Extension Module that would allow Google SketchUp to receive TUIO and hence allow manipulations via Multitouch gestures. Abstract Lack of a CAD software that could be used via Multitouch has been the motivating factor behind this proposal. Eversince I used the Sketches application on iPhone –which enables 2D drawing using Multitouch, I felt like doing something similar on my FTIR setup. Adding multitouch ability to an easy to use CAD/modeling software - Google SketchUp would not only make the design process intuitive but also add a lot to the usability factor. The reason behind choosing Google SketchUp and not start developing something from scratch is due to its easy to start UI. By experience I’ve felt that Google SketchUp is one of the easiest and widely used surface modeling tools around- what’s impressive about it - its pat...
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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 :-)
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Google SoC is on!

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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/ ..
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New Apps and some bite of Python

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Well now I am learning actionscript from Scratch and planning to do some Multitouch apps using it. We happen to be fans of the RotatableScalable Class by NUIGroup, which has some prewritten magic that we can directly extend in our code. Another thing that deserves a mention is pyMT , which Sharath introduced us to, who happens to be a bigtime fan of the Python language and contributor this project. He's doing his final year project with his team back there in Mangalore , and hey, pyMT's Python apps look great ! Since I'll be continuing with Actionscript for now, it remains to be seen whether Python or ActionScript is better. :-) Let's wait and watch
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First Prize at IIT Kanpur's Techkriti

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We got our table running at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur's annual technical festival- Techkriti, one of the largest ones in India and voila ! got First Prize there :)  Number of Teams at the exhibit-20 Number of Projects that applied- approx 400 A lot of hardware including the whole wooden box setup and the large projector had to be shipped around 300 Kilometers from here- and explaining Multitouch/FTIR/NUIGroup to the audience for 3 long days countless number of times. And that paid off well :) with some moolah raking in, well the first prize got us richer by Rs. 30000/- , enough money to let us by the new Lasers and a couple of cameras for a new multitouch setup.  The team which made a Robotic Hand from Delhi College Of Engineering got the second prize :-) Congratulations to them. Some Pics from the Gallery
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