Multi-Touch Interaction Research

October 31, 2006 on 4:30 pm by Thomas | In Movies, Science |

Rember “Minority Report”? The best thing in this movie were the fascinating interfaces the policemen used to gather information. Big touchscreens that react to the movements of several fingers or even several hands on interactive walls or table tops. Well, there is something like this in reality and of course, I liked the idea of the digital touchscreen turntable (as seen in the picture).

Jeff Hahn and his colleagues at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University are working on that and there’s an impressive movie clip to visualize their efforts. Mindblowing, music by Peter Kruder.

[via sounds.imnetz]

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  1. Fascinating! Haven’t you noticed that all the visions
    I.Asimov, A.Clark, R. Bradbury etc had decades ago are becoming reality? The chicken or the egg?

    Comment by Dimi — 2/11/2006 #

  2. [...] Thomas verweist auf die spacige “Multi-Touch Interaction Research“. Hat was von Science Fiction. While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops. von markus um 12:34 | abgelegt in General, Digitalkultur, Aus der Reihe Trackback URL | Comment RSS Feed Tag at del.icio.us | Incoming links [...]

    Pingback by netzpolitik.org: » Multi-Touch Interaction Research » Aktuelle Berichterstattung rund um die politischen Themen der Informationsgesellschaft. — 2/11/2006 #

  3. Hammer!

    Comment by Pit — 3/11/2006 #

  4. [...] (Link, via) [...]

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  5. [...] A little while ago, Stylewalker blogged about a ridiculously futuristic touch-driven interface that Jeff Han has been cooking up at NYU. Now if you thought that looked amazing, what do you think of this? Although it just gives us a tiny glimpse of what it does as of yet, just thinking about the new things you can do with that kind of device makes me shudder. [...]

    Pingback by The Waving Cat » Blog Archive » Touch-driven interface from the future — 18/1/2007 #

  6. [...] I got this hint via an sms, somebody believed having seen a blogpost about the Reactable here and wanted to inform me that this fascinating digital music-interface is in Berlin for Transmediale at M12. Actually, I did not know about this project by the Audiovisual Institute at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona but it is similar to the Multi touch interface I posted some weeks ago. Watch this demonstration and be amazed by the blend of the visual effects and the music controlling capacities. [...]

    Pingback by Stylewalker.Net - Right out off the dirty clubs » ReacTable — 5/2/2007 #

  7. [...] If you like this you might also find the following interesting: Multi-touch-interaction-research at NYU and the interactive multitouch instrument Reactable [...]

    Pingback by Stylewalker.Net - Growing with the network » Interactive multitouch display — 22/2/2007 #

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