Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Touch User Interface Monthly News Letter (2010-02-01 – 2010-03-01)

Readings

News from around the World


Concept Designs and Videos

  • Photo: Kodak Sponsored Studio project aka earphones that capture everything by William Gerwin http://tumblr.com/xin6tz5cu (Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:01:29 +0000)
  • Video: Multi-Touch Real Time Strategy Game: RUSE Multi-Touch Control Trailer http://tumblr.com/xin6tuvze (Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:27:34 +0000)
  • Photo: Apple Black Hole Concept, the iPhone of 2020? | Concept Phones http://tumblr.com/xin6qbqbp (Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:05:38 +0000)
  • Video: iPhone 4G Transformers Phone Concept (via conceptmobiles) http://tumblr.com/xin6qagmt (Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:13:54 +0000)
  • Video: NOKIA frame AR concept phone on Vimeo (via Vimeo) http://tumblr.com/xin6q910e (Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:12:15 +0000)
  • Video: Esquire’s Augmented Reality Issue: A Tour (via EsquireMag) http://tumblr.com/xin6q3194 (Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:27:56 +0000)
  • An interactive music table with tangible notes, that helps students to learn the notation of music - Noteput... http://tumblr.com/xin6p3xuh (Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:41:12 +0000)
  • Video: Nikon Virtual Touch Experience on Vimeo (via Vimeo) http://tumblr.com/xin6m910z (Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:49:47 +0000)
  • Shape Shifting Phone Prototypes http://bit.ly/a0n9gu (Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:38:16 +0000)
  • Video: Sensor Controlled Interface For Sharing Music Libraries - PSFK http://tumblr.com/xin6iu2yq (Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:14:38 +0000)
  • Photo: The Eye Concept Phone Packs a See-Through LCD Screen, Concept Phones http://tumblr.com/xin6iu2kj (Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:13:58 +0000)
  • Malboro Campain Using AirStrike 3D Gestural Interface RT @LM3LABS: マールボロが、AirStrikeでインタラクティブ・キャンペーンを展開: http://bit.ly/aDysOX (Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:22:48 +0000)
  • Video: Symbian^3 (via NokiaConversations) http://tumblr.com/xin6hiz8s (Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:42:51 +0000)
  • Video: Touch Gestural User Interface With Augmented Reality Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop on... http://tumblr.com/xin6ciaey (Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:52:37 +0000)
  • Concept E-book Reader and Mobile Phone Designs http://bit.ly/daq8YW (Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:35:23 +0000)
  • Gesture Cube – The First Commercial 3D Capacitive Touch Interface? http://bit.ly/aiMMdA (Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:26:33 +0000)

Academic Research Works

  • Whisker Robot - Robot Navigates Like Cat - › “The objective of this work is the construction of an active... http://tumblr.com/xin6tsyqg (Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:07:45 +0000)
  • MagiTact: interaction with mobile devices based on compass (magnetic) sensor - It’ cool idea. That magnets... http://tumblr.com/xin6rkslc (Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:27:21 +0000)
  • http://bit.ly/9v2CXb (Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:36:53 +0000)
  • An electrostatic haptic display for the visually impaired This project is to give haptic feedback by generating weak electrical sensation. Although it is for the blind, I think the technology can be applied to a new touch screen that can give real "touchy" feeling to users. The research group at Department of Orthopedics & Rehabilitation at Univ. Wisconsin have other cool interface projects for the blind. (tags: haptics project research)
  • CHI2010 Touch UI Papers http://bit.ly/a8hXcQ (Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:43:39 +0000)
  • Video: Zoom as Navigation (via laurentmt) http://tumblr.com/xin6jws2f (Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:32:51 +0000)
  • LCD Multi Touch Using Inverted FTIR Technology http://bit.ly/b81paE (Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:24:05 +0000)
  • Video: Pictionaire Multi-touch Table from Microsoft Research (via lynnvm) http://tumblr.com/xin64cgf5 (Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:46:14 +0000)
  • OCGM: Universal Foundational Metaphors of Natural User Interfaces http://bit.ly/buI5M5 (Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:04:34 +0000) Video: Cute concept video. But I don’t like use a dumb virtual keyboard instead of a pen on a tablet. Chrome... http://tumblr.com/xin62a00g (Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:56:10 +0000)

References


Projects and Companies

  • TactoLogic TactoLogic Ltd. is the very first manufacturer of three-axial tactile-sensor arrays worldwide. TactoLogic currently manufactures the following three-axial tactile sensor arrays: * TactoPoint 1x1 - the smallest, single-element 3D force sensor * TactoFlex 2x2 - a small three-axial device for finger-mounted applications * TactoPad 2x2 - a general purpose, small three-axial array * TactoPad 8x8 - a genaral purpose, large three-axial array (under development) All devices come with TactoLogic Masterboard, the read-out circuitry, and TactoSoft, a professional data acquisition and analysis software, constructed especially for the purpose of three-axial tactile data handling. (tags: tactile sensor multitouch pressure force)
  • SENSACELL Sensacell provides an interactive LED array panel which can detects proximity and touch. (tags: interactive led design sensor technology proximity)
  • Fischtisch The company provides LED multi-touch sensing module. (tags: multitouch sensor led)
  • TOU-CHI TOU-CHI is a start-up company whose main technology is a transparent multi-touch sensor. The senosr features detecting 10 simultaneous multi-touch, distinguishing pressure levels, and more. The technology of TOU-CHI is not yet documented, so I don't know if the sensor is resistive or capacitive. (tags: multitouch touchscreen)
  • cleankeys Cleankeys is a touch sensing keypad. It means that it doesn't have any mechanical buttons on it. Well, I think it's another successor of former FingerWorks touch keyboard (FingerWorks was acquired by Apple). (tags: touch keyboard gadget)
  • Mag Design and Engineering Mag Design and Engineering offers $2550 DIY digitizing tablet kits. The tablet is semi-transparent, so it might be placed on a display. (tags: digitizer tablet DIY)
  • Scriptel: Wired dual mode pen/touch solution provider Scriptel offers dual mode pen and touch solution. It can be compared with N-trig and Wacom. N-trig and Wacom's technologies relies on the combination of electromagnetic induction and capacitive sensing theory. To the contrary, Scriptel touch technology uses only capacitive sensing technology to sense pen and touch. However, it needs a wired pen, which prohibits it from being applied to mobile computing. (tags: tablet touchscreen pen pen_computing)
  • Flatfrog Overlay Multi Touch Solution for LCDs http://bit.ly/92ip1B (Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:55:17 +0000)
  • Siri – The Personal Assistant in iPhone http://bit.ly/cnOLIH (Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:36:51 +0000)
  • Mgestyk’s Free-Hand 3D Gestural User Interface http://www.touchuserinterface.com/2010/02/mgestyks-free-hand-3d-gestural-user.html (Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:57:58 +0000)
  • DIY LCD Multi Touch RT @hackaday: New post: Porta Touch: portable multitouch http://bit.ly/9yE576 (Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:50:54 +0000)
  • Watch PyMT: Multitouch + Pen on Vimeo! http://vimeo.com/5388897 (Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:46:15 +0000)
  • Keyboard Goes Multi Touch http://bit.ly/bvjLp4 (Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:34:35 +0000)
  • HP Labs India - Paper Based Interaction: http://bit.ly/bv2lmm (Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:02:31 +0000)
  • HP Labs India - Intuitive Multimodal and Gestural Interaction Project: The Economic Times has an article about int... http://bit.ly/9hM9jp (Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:02:31 +0000)
  • TISCH - Tangible Interactive Surfaces for Collaboration between Humans: A cross-platform, cross-device multitouch ... http://bit.ly/aMJMtb (Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:36:59 +0000)
  • CDMultiTouch.com: LcdMultiTouch provides an LCD-based multitouch solution http://bit.ly/d89q4Y (Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:03:57 +0000)
  • Video: TRKBRD is a touchless touch user interface using IR sensing techniques. Currently the demo hardware... http://tumblr.com/xin6187qu (Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:24:20 +0000)

Market Data

  • Touch Screen Panel Market to Reach $3.6B in 2010 - High Growth of 30% CAGR Expected until 2013 http://bit.ly/blE8Z1 (Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:23:45 +0000)
  • The Unbelievable Statistics about World of WarCraft http://bit.ly/csXcCe (Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:06:29 +0000)
  • Unbelievable RT @Razorfish: @fififofum Avg.social gamer is a 43yr old woman, 42% of women call themselves gamers http://bit.ly/cC08xp (Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:10:10 +0000)
  • Link: 163m Smartbooks shipped by 2015 says ABI Research - SlashGear: They’ve predicted 163 million smartbooks ship... http://bit.ly/av1zjg (Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:07:56 +0000)
  • Special Reports for OTFT /e-Paper/Flexible Display (Displaybank) http://bit.ly/bAOEWR (Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:48:31 +0000)
  • Mobile Usability - Feature phones 38%, Smartphones 55%, Touch phones 75% (success rates) http://bit.ly/xdZ0w (Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:55:52 +0000)
  • Wacom Annual Report 2009 The report claims that the market share of Wacom is 86% worldwide. The netsales (2009) is 344,183,000USD, among which ESD business part recorded 33,058,000USD. Wacom's ESD division covers digitizing tablets. Therefore, as of 2009, it can be roughly estimated that the worldwide market of digitizing tablets is 387,276,740 USD (=33,058,000 / 86%). (tags: wacom market report tablet digitizer)
  • 2009 The Aftermarket for PC Accessories Report The computer accessories aftermarket amounted to $6.575 billion in 2008, and will reach $7.64 billion by 2013. This report also contains details of Wacom profile, which is the major company in digitizer tablet market (tags: tablet input market report)
    Wacom Penabled Develope Kit (tags: wacom tablet kit development EMR)
  • Market: Four Million Media Tablets in 2010 Will Rise to 57 Million in 2015 http://bit.ly/a2K3ji (Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:48:07 +0000)
  • Supporting Market Data on the Growth of Touch Technology http://bit.ly/cyeQvo (Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:36:52 +0000)
  • "Multi-Touch Transforms Retail in 2010" RT @Razorfish The Razorfish 5: Five Technologies That Will Change Your Business http://bit.ly/aS390b (Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:03:07 +0000)

People and Blogs


Misc.

  • Gyroscope - the last sensor I need for iPhone. RT @IEEESpectrum: A Three Axis Gyroscope with Just One Sensor http://bit.ly/alLhMD (Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:48:38 +0000)
  • Zooming map interface is implemented on paper. No battery, no circuit, and very cheap. http://bit.ly/abo71A (Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:02:05 +0000)
  • Apple announced iPad and Amazon bought Touchco. Ebook reader market is now a new multitouch battlefield. (Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:40:12 +0000)
  • RT @crunchgear Proximity sensing shirts light up within ten feet of each other http://bit.ly/cH6kdu (Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:06:28 +0000)
  • Thanks for sharing your paper RT @joshblake: Direct link to OCGM paper in case anyone had trouble yesterday: http://bit.ly/amr5XP (Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:10:43 +0000)

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