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Design 3D lava lamps with gestures on Handy-Potter
You can design anything from vases to pagodas with this easy Kinect gestural app. All it takes is a bit of waving in the air and a few seconds. Gestural interfaces like the Leap promise a world in which we’ll all be driving cars and flying planes by waving our...
Hands-On Design Takes on New Meaning
This Research in Action article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Computer users created these shapes with Handy-Potter, a new design tool developed at the C Design Lab in the Purdue University School of Mechanical...
Extended Multitouch: Recovering Touch Posture & Identity Using Depth Cameras on a Pen+Touch Tabletop Interface
Abstract: Multitouch surfaces are becoming prevalent, but most existing technologies are only capable of detecting the user’s actual points of contact on the surface and not the identity, posture, and handedness of the user. In this paper, we define the concept...
