I came across this article about an (impressive) implementation of a multi-touch table that was created by a group of engineering students from India. The table uses FTIR touch sensing technology that was first used in this context a couple of years ago by Jefferson Han (if that name doesn’t ring a bell, the video of Han playing with a video-wall probably will). The software was built around Touchlib (NUI Group) an open source library for creating multi-touch interaction surfaces.
The demo by the Sparsh team shows how their table can be turned into a mixing table for DJ’s (among other).
So, maybe it is possible for user-interfaces to evolve beyond WIMP after all!
Links:
- Natural User Interface or ~ NUI Group is an interactive media group researching and creating open source machine sensing techniques to benefit artistic and educational applications.
- Click here to read an interesting blog post by Richard Monson-Haefel about the Sparsh project.
- Click here to read more about Ideo-Multitouch, another home-brew, Flash, open-source multitouch table.
- Click here to go to the product page of Microsoft Surface.
- I’m not sure if the Sparsh-UI project is affiliated with the Sparsh multitouch table but it’s interesting.
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thats an amazing video dude, i would like to contact those guys for some help with my custom Multi touch project. Do you knw them personally ?
I don’t know them…