http://eye.kddi.com/content.html

Similar to Made of Japan, but it comes with moving images. Well, if you are my student in the Microwave’s “Procedural Animation” workshop or SCM’s “Image Processing and AR”, you have made this with Processing with exactly the same mouse interaction. This one, Eye-Project, with flash. It looks very nice!

有點兒跟Made of Japan相似, 但Eye-Project今次有Moving Images/Video. 如果你之前上過我Microwave教授的”Procedural Animation” workshop 或者SCM的 “Image Processing and AR”, 上課時你們都做過類似的練習了. 但你們用的是Processing, 人家用的是Flash. 這個Eye-Project看上去還蠻酷呢.

More photo and video (is coming) for the multi-touch project:

Plus (photo of “Playful Media Exhibition):

It is the final testing video and photos by group of Ashley, Cinny, Don + Special help by Jason (crazy man) , Shek, Hoi and Jeff.

It is the exhibition Playful Media by BSc CM SIG, from City University of Hong Kong.

How to make your animations at Flipbook Deluxe, Staff’s picks for december ‘06 - may ‘07 reel. It was a very nice collective experience.

Web Site:
http://www.benettonplay.com/toys/flipbookdeluxe/

You have seen Microsoft’s Surface, amazed with the possibilities, but we still love Jeff Han: Low Cost FTIR. (Surface is also FTIR). That’s why you see my group of student (BScCM, SIG MoCap) research and developing their own Multitouch hardware and interface. Remember, Surface has limited on 52 touch points, we have no limitation. Crazy student Jason make his own tracking blob library and give up other existing library. Wonderful team with Ashley, Don, Cinny working very hard for few overnights on hardware and interface. And brother Jeff and Shek giving a helping hands on their classmate. It is what a media art school should see, not a teacher pushing and helping even working for them. They are a team of independent and active research and developer. What I need to do is just guide and give a little workshop on tracking technique. Good Job Team!

Last week they have already present their work-in-progress in GuLLDY’s open source project seminar. They will then exhibited next Monday in the show case of School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Let’s looking forward their interface and application, kinda arty or applicable.

At the same time, you will crazy about it HP’s gaint Multitouch wall.

I was teaching in the class “Microcontroller and Embedded system“. In the first 3 lesson, we use LEGO Mindstorm as a warm up. We given the application provided by LEGO and use JAVA with eclipse to write the RCX. (We are still using Mindstorm 2.0, but will use 3.0 with bluetooth one next time I do the class!) The second, or the main focus of this class is Arduino. We use Arduino IDE to write Arduino. Student need to finish the tasks in every class. From analog to digital, complex sensors, multiplexer, midi port, Wifi, etc.

These are two of the students’ assignment:

This is a lighting/LED funiture made by the group of Ashley.

This is a 8bits generator/instrument with mixer by the Jason.

This is a “Audio-Visual” Controller made by Chris.

In the LEGO Mindstorm warm up, students did three group projects:
1) Walk in the lab, can aviod the wall and object once touch the wall and the objects.
2) Aviod all objects and wall before touching it
3) Picking up the specific objects and then back home.

There are few of the project 3:

I have posted “Multitouch fever” where has a link from sport4minus.de who was producing multiouch table and open out the whole progress. Today we can see a very fine-developed final product loopArenaMTC which is Jens wunderling, the webmaster, crewed with MTC.

The interface is programmed in Processing 0091 using the proMidi Library. But it seems to me that the version in the video is kind of openSoundControl (from the page). And it mentioned it is using libavg, a graphic library, do the tracking.

Extended Reading:
touchLib (which TUIO is developed under this library, and it seems be developed with OpenCV: http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/touchlib/
ReactTable: http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/
NUIgroup: http://nuigroup.com
More Videos on Multitouch in nuigroup: http://nuigroup.com/log/comments/video_updates/
TouchTracer: http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/268/

Recently the whole HCI community or even media art community are very keen on inventing, duplicating or copying the Multitouch interface, with different shape, form or application. M$soft show you their power of money and technology: Microsoft Surface.

According to the reserach page of Surface, it is based on the research “Play Anywhere“. Honestly, I am impressed by concept of Play anywhere, not the technology. (sure many people even students can make the similar thing easily) After the over-heat trend of Jeff Han’s FTIR Multitouch and his great presentation on TED, we found iPone. Now is Microsoft Surface. Instead, we have so many multitouch research before, by different parties like Sony CSL, Mitsubishi MERL’s Diamond Touch, etc. Multitouch Technology seems a trend of HCI research. And never ended. But the application is becoming more and more interesting.

We are impressed by Jeff Han’s Map navigation and photo album interface. We have iBar and more coffee table with interactive reaction (even it is very bad interaction design). Or iPhone’s magic.

Well, Microsoft Surface is so nice that help you to put them all together in its brand new product. You can check in the page http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ . Cool? All-in-one! And bring you more suprises!! Photo shoting and send the photo by just putting the camera on the Surface! And drag the photo to the mobile phone! Amazing! But, let’s pay attention on the word “Possibilities”. I can imagine how to make the transfer but I don’t think we can just sending a photo to a specific mobile without incidating the specific device you want to send to. Well, Possibilities, imagination! But, honestly, still very impressed by the whole package.

Extended reading:
Multitouch Fever: http://www.the-demos.com/?p=139
Microsoft Surface: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
Jeff Han’s FTIR: http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/
Diamonad Touch: http://www.merl.com/projects/DiamondTouch
Sony CSL Smart Skin: http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/smartskin/

GuLLDY Open Source Project: Seminar 2

Topic: OPEN SOURCE: FOUNDATIONS, SITUATIONS AND DIRECTIONS
Speaker: Dr. RODRIGUEZ, Hector
Date: 2/6/2007 (Sat)
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: GuLLDY, 9/F, Fu Tak House, 367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

Description:

This talk will come across fundamental issues about open source. What is Open Source? In what sense is a public license “public”? Does Open Source pertain exclusively to computer software? Can it be applied beyond software? What is its relationship to Creative Commons, if any? What are its consequences (for social activists and artists)? Does the concept have any drawbacks/problems/contradictions?

Speaker’s Bio:
Dr Rodriguez received his doctoral degree in the field of cinema studies. Most of his early research concerned Asian (Japanese, Chinese) film history and the philosophy of film. He has been invited to speak at the Anthology Film Archives (New York), the Japan Society (New York), the Microwave Media Arts Festival (Hong Kong), the Hong Kong International Film Festival, as well as many international film theory conferences.

More recently, his research has moved in the direction of new media art. He has presented papers about the implications of digital culture, the teaching of new technologies, and the modern art movement known as the “Situationist International (SI)”. His video work has been shown at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, the Para/Site Art Gallery, and the Hong Kong City Hall. It has been broadcast by Radio Television Hong Kong. He has also co-curated an art exhibit at the Para/Site Art Gallery in Hong Kong. He is currently conducting research about the philosophical implications of new media art, and about the interface between art and evolutionary theory.