Touch sensing research proving more useful for computers
Jeff Han, regional scientist at NYU New York, is researching exciting new concepts in touch sensing that may one day change the way we interface computers.
While his Multi-Touch Interaction Research looks more to be an art show than any computer that we are familiar with, Jeff Han believes that this technology is “the way we should be interacting with machines.”
Using technology similar to the touch sensor on a kiosk or an ATM machine, yet more advanced; Jeff’s research allows capabilities such as using multiple people or multiple fingers to interact with the screen including the interface responding to varying levels of pressure.
Jeff demonstrates these concepts in a short video where he uses several applications like a lava lamp utility (shown above), and a whirlwind application developed by NASA to manipulate different features within these applications in an “interface free” environment. He claims to not need an interface when using these methods, and strives to rid the world of the well known mouse and pointer environment.
While this technology is not new, Jeff seems to be renovating it by applying it to new concepts in a fresh way, and even claims the ability to set up a high resolution display like this at “low cost.” I would personally like to see this technology applied to the desktop prototype, BumpTop.
Jeff is currently working on multiple projects that can be viewed on his homepage at NYU. Of these, one extremely interesting exploration of his, The Media Mirror, where he turns over 200 channels of live cable T.V. into a photo mosaic of the person who is standing in front of the screen, is definitely worth a gander.
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