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RECENT TRENDS IN ENGINEERING

SKINPUT TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft Research and Carnegie

Mellon University publicly unveiled work at

the Computer Human Interaction conference

in Atlanta that makes an entire body a touch

interface called Skinput , the system listens

to the sounds made by tapping on parts of a

body and pairs those sounds with actions

that drive tasks on a computer or cell phone.

To make it work, a user straps on a

prototype armband that includes 10 sensors,

each smaller than a penny, that listen for

taps made on the arm or hand."It can

actually listen to these effects and impacts

travelling up the bones and muscles and

ligaments," said Chris Harrison a Ph.D.

student at Carnegie Mellon University who

is now working with Microsoft Research to

develop the project further. "It listens to

what they sound like and it can classify

them. If it learns what your middle finger

sounds like then it can say, 'Oh I just heard

the middle finger,' and then you can bond

interactive capabilities onto those."It takes a

minute or two to calibrate the system for

each new user. That's done by choosing one

of six tasks that the prototype can now

handle -- up, down, left, right, enter or

cancel -- and pairing the choice with a tap

on the arm or hand.

The demonstration at the CHI

conference used a computer monitor to show

the interface, but in a previous

demonstration off-site, Harrison had a pico,

or mini, projector mounted on his arm that

projected the display onto his hand or arm.

One of the examples Harrison showed was a

game of Tetris where he controlled the

blocks by tapping on his fingers and arm. In

another demonstration he navigated a simple

music player; playing, pausing and selecting

music with a series of taps.

The system is bulky now, with an

armband and 10 wires plugged into a large

receiver that then plugs into a computer to

process the sounds. Harrison hopes to scale

it down. According to Harrison, the

accuracy of six inputs is between 90 and 100

percent, depending on the user.

Skinput was born from an earlier

project that Harrison worked on called

Scratch Input that allowed users to write by

simply dragging a finger over the surface of

the textured material, like a desk. A sensor

interpreted the sounds and turned them into

lines on a display. Imagine scratching letters

on a desk and having them show up on a

display screen.

There's no word on when or if the

system will be commercialized, but

Microsoft's interest in what was once a

student's project could indicate that it may

use the technology in the future.

-Juhi Thakur (B.E. E&TC)

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अभियंता सर्वत्रच

अभियंता हा असा प्राणी आहे कि जगाच्या पाठीवर िोणत्याही के्षत्रात गेला तरीही तो जगू शितो याच ंिारण म्हणज े अभियांत्रत्रिी िरताना बरेचश े अस े टप्प ेअसतात कि त ेटप्पे पार िेल्या भशवाय तो वक्ती पररपूणण अभियंता होऊ शितच नाही .हे टप्पे म्हणजे त्या व्यक्ती ला सामाजजि ,सांस्िृतति ,िला ,िमी अधिि प्रमाणात राजिीय यामळेु व्ययजक्ति वविास हा एिा वेगळ्या पातळीवर होतो .आणण जीवनाच्या पुढच्या वाटचालीसाठी त्यास सक्षम बनववतात .वर्ाणत असलेली दोन परीके्षच ेसत्र ववववि प्रात्यक्षक्षिे.बऱ्याच झाणांच परीके्षचे तनयोजन हे एिा रात्रीतच असत .िमी वेळेत िाम पूणण अभियंत्या च ंआयुष्य संपूणण ऐततहाभसि आहे .

ववववि के्षत्रात असलेले प्रततिावंत अभियंते

राजिारण –(एपीज े अब्दलु िलाम ,मनोहर परीिर ,पथृ्वीराज चव्हाण ,रघुराम राजन ,अरववदं िेजरीवाल ,तनतीश िुमार ,जयराम रमशे)

िारतीय सेवा -(स्व.हेमंत िरिरे(आयपीएस ), भशवदीप लांड(ेआयपीएस ),प्रतति ठुब े (आयपीएस), अरववदं िेजरीवाल)

धचत्रपट के्षत्र (ददग्दशणि –(राम गोपाल वमाण ,राजामौली (बाहुबली),संजय जािव (दतुनयादारी),संजीव पाटील (ददग्दशणि )))

(गायि –शंिर महादेवन ,शे्रया घोशाल)

(अभिनेता /अभिनेत्री ---आर मािवन ,अजुणन रामपाल,सोन ूसुद ,िररती स्यानोन )

लेखि –चेतन िगत

कििेटर –(अतनल िंुबळे ,आर अजववन ,जवागल श्रीनाथ ,)

तसच आपल ं िोलेज ढोले पाटील अभियांत्रत्रिी महाववद्यालय जे कि ववववि उपिमाद्वारे ववद्याथाांना प्रोत्साहन देतं जस ं कि एन एस एस ,पुरुर्ोत्तम िरंडि ,किरोददया िरंडि ,रोबोिौन ,सुप्रा ह्या एि उत्तम ववद्याथी घडवत आहेत

र्ैिर् वर्. शेर्ाळे (माहिती तंत्रज्ञान ,र्र्व-४ थे )

SKETCH

Korvi Lokesh (B.E. Civil)

Krupa Savalia (S.E. CIVIL)

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Sanket Kubade (T.E. Automobile)

Korvi Lokesh (B.E. Civil)

FACULTY CORNER

Priyanka Nawale (Lab Assistant Automobile)

Prof. Moumita Chatterjee (E&TC Department)

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