iTouch:: Haptic Interaction Lab

SIGGRAPH 2009’s Emerging Technologies

salif — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:29:51 +0000

SIGGRAPH 2009’s Emerging Technologies presents innovative technologies and applications in many fields, including displays, robotics, input devices, and interaction techniques.

PQ Labs Multi-Touch

salif — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:21:08 +0000

Multi-Touch is not just about multiple fingers. It’s all about human-computer interaction in the most intuitive way. In the Multi-Touch Warcraft game powered by PQ Labs, finger and fist are mapped to different actions. Hitting the enemy with your fist means attack. In between the real world and the virtual world, Multi-Touch is your bridge. You can physically interact with the virtual world without menus, commands. The interface just disappears. With PQLabs Multi-Touch G², interaction becomes a “REAL” digital illusion.

Interfaces enactivas

salif — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:43:31 +0000

As interfaces inactivas se referem a um conceito novo mas que já suscita um grande interesse por parte de diversos investigadores da área da interacção humano-computador.

A emergência desta nova nova geração de interfaces e da investigação de formas de interacção não-simbólica, não-icónicas, em ambientes mediados por computador veio abrir novas possibilidades para o futuro das aplicações informáticas, no domínio da aprendizagem, armazenar informação, criando, interagindo com as pessoas distantes através da enacção. Estas aplicações incluem novos usos para os computadores, mas também são direccionadas para novos utilizadores. As Interfaces Enactivas estão relacionados com um conceito fundamental de interacção que não tem sido explorado pela maioria das actuais tecnologias interface humano-computador.

Como afirmou o psicólogo cognitivo Jerome Bruner, a interacção tradicional com a informação mediada pelo computador tem-se baseado principalmente no conhecimento simbólico ou icónico, e não no conhecimento enactivo. Enquanto que no modo de aprendizagem simbólica, o conhecimento é armazenado como palavras, símbolos matemáticos ou outros sistemas de símbolo, já no estado icónico, o conhecimento aparece sob a forma de imagens visuais, como gráficos e ilustrações que podem acompanhar as informações verbais. Por outro lado, o conhecimento enactivo é uma forma de conhecimento que faz o uso activo das mãos na execução das tarefas.

Bookmarks for April 2nd through June 4th

salif — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:23:01 +0000

These are my links for April 2nd through June 4th:

Touchable holography

salif — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:15:38 +0000

Touchable holography - Professor Hiroyuki Shinoda and his colleagues at Tokyo University are making headway in haptic holography, 3D projections you can actually feel. (via boingboing)

BODYMAPS: ARTIFACTS OF TOUCH

salif — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:35:39 +0000

Bodymaps: artifacts of touch is a computer interactive sound and video installation recently exhibited at the Western Front Gallery in Vancouver, April ‘96, Ars Electronica in Lintz Austria from September 2nd to 23rd l996, and at Interaction ‘97 in Ogaki-City Japan March ‘97. The piece uses a specially designed sensor surface, embedded with 15 Electromagnetic Field Sensors which operate very much like 15 theramins, and 8 Force Sensing Resistor Sensors which can detect touch, pressure and the amount of force applied to the surface.

Multitouch Barcelona

salif — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:08:13 +0000

Hi from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo.

“We design experiences that merge real and digital into a creative environment where people are invited to touch, play, move, feel as they do in the real world.” - Multitouch Barcelona Group

” A design group called Multitouch Barcelona has carried out the Natural Interaction project to explore the communication between human and technology. They design touch-sensitive environments where real world interactions move to a digital context, with everything happening the way it’s supposed to in the real world.
Give the video a peep; your perspective and appreciation for technology will get a reality check.” - via CNET News.

“gravicells” Gravity and resistance

salif — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:55:30 +0000

“gravicells” Gravity and resistance -by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media Co-production: YCAM Interlab

“In this artwork, it is possible for us to develop a new human sense through feeling gravity differently than usual and having new perception of body. The work provides a space with hypothetical dynamics having the opposing forces of gravity and resistance, through special devices and sensors.”

“In “gravicells” - Gravity and Resistance Project gravity is used as a perceptive interface, and has to effect that it makes us conscious in a synaesthetic way of the natural forces surrounding us. As players we become autonomous cells in a larger system susceptible to the dynamics of gravity and resistance. By playing with two opposing forces we become aware of the potential and constraints the latter hold.”

[“Phantasm”] Takahiro Matsuo

salif — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:40:37 +0000

An interactive installation that makes a “phantasm” appear in a space. Participants hold a sphere. When light is released from the sphere, it is just as if a phantasm has been lit up before them: white butterflies appear in profusion. When the light is shut off the phantasm disappears as if it were a dream.

[Prize] Laval Virtual Awards 2008, Prix Emerging Technologies, Asia Digital Art Award 2006, Second Prize

[Link] http://www.monoscape.jp

Joystick Everywhere - University of Tsukuba

salif — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:20:50 +0000

“Joystick everywhere” is a personal computer peripheral consisting of no handheld stick that pivots about one end. Rather it is a three-dimensional tactile sensor which can estimate the magnitude and direction of the force and contact position of the handheld object or user’s finger, consisting of an elastic body as thin and soft as human skin and light beams irradiated in parallel just under the elastic body. -

http://www.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp/~hoshino/