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OmniTouch wearable multitouch system turns any surface into interface

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Researchers at Microsoft Research and the Carnegie Mellon University are developing a wearable projection system developed by, enables users to turn pads of paper, walls or even their own hands, arms and legs into graphical, interactive surfaces. Dubbed OmniTouch, the technology could be used for gestural control of the projected information and interact with it ... »

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The emotional computer – future of human-robot interaction

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There is no doubt that future computers and robots need to understand us better in order to make the interaction with them more pleasant and productive. Some examples we already wrote about are Kismet robot from MIT, or FEELIX GROWING project based on Aldebaran robot Nao platform. A team of researcher from the University of ... »

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Sony enters body motion control market with Atracsys ICU

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The latest games console arms race, where Microsoft’s Project Natal for Xbox 360 had a slight advantage, just got more interesting. Sony has unveiled their attempt to reach hands-free, full-body game control system called Interactive Communication Unit or ICU, at the Vision 2009 trade fair in Stuttgart, Germany. Sony Europe’s image-sensing division created ICU in ... »

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Project Natal – body motion control and much more

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In a couple of our previous articles we wrote about a few new ways for information interaction and since the beginning of our website existence we wanted to write about a couple of things like motion sensing equipment and gaming platforms. This article combines all those subjects into one. Since Nintendo launched their Wii controller ... »