GESTURE BASED COMPUTING
(Four to Five Years)
The Promise of Gesture Computing for Libraries:
Beyond organizing, storing, preserving, accessing, evaluating, producing, & teaching
Will Libraries Be the Place For
INTERACTING With Information
2 Primary Forms
Touch/Surface Based Interaction
Imitative Input / Recognition Response
Touch/Surface Based: Portables
The Apple iPad
(large iPhone+)
Multi-Touch/Surface Based
Hybrid – Touch: Kno E-Textbook
The KNO Digital Textbook http:/www.kno.com
Touch/Surface: SmartDesks
Touch/Surface Based: Table Surfaces
Microsoft “Surface” at Ball State Library
Microsoft “Surface” as UI (UX) Object Recognition
Touch/Surface Based: Walls
These Walls Are Soooo 2008!
Touch/Surface: Walls
Intel Infoscape
Cubes Of Related Content
Who Is Gonna Catalog This Content?
Touch/Surface: Apps That Imitate
“Hoccer” App for iPhone/Android/Web Client
contacts, text, bookmarks, images, (coming soon - pdf & zip)
iPhone Guitar App.
Gesture Imitation/Recognition
Recognition and Response Technologies
2-Way Communication
Gesture Imitation/Recognition
Rehab
Wii Hacks
More Than A Toy Nintendo Wii
Training Surgeons
Gesture: Gaming
The Library of Congress The largest library in the world is no place for a gunfight,
but try telling that to the Drudge, our future extraterrestrial overlords.
From Conduit - Library of Congress For Nintendo Wii
Wii Walkthroughs
Gesture Imitation/Recognition
Virtual Keyboards Are Here
Oooo Look! Twitter!
Gesture Assistive Recognition
Incl. Clicking Turning Pages Moves Mouse
The “Hummer Neckband” Converts Sound Vibrations into Computer Input
Hummer Neckband Developed at Bloorview Kids Rehab in Toronto
Gesture Imitation/Recognition
Handtracking: The hardware for a new gesture-based computing system consists of nothing more than an ordinary webcam and a pair of brightly colored lycra gloves.
Gesture Imitation/Recognition
Are You Ready for a “Sixth Sense” from MIT Labs
Is Thinking a Gesture?
What’s Next?
Onto.. Visual Data Analysis