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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...

ConceptS: Our new Multitouch Wall

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.

First Prize at IIT Kanpur's Techkriti

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

Got a new site,

Our new website is now hosted at www.sparsh-i.com . The Vimeo Video on the homepage made it popular and hit the digg frontpage :) ! its a great feeling ! The video received more than 30 comments in 24 hours of launching http://vimeo.com/2953423