Abstract

Multi-touch tables are becoming increasingly popular and much research is dedicated to developing suitable interaction paradigms. There also exist multiple techniques aimed at extending interactions into the hoverspace — the space directly above a multi-touch table. We propose a novel hover-space method that does not require any additional hardware or modification of existing vision-based multi-touch tables. Our prototype system was developed on a Diffused Surface Illumination (DSI) vision-based multi-touch set up, and uses light reflected from a person’s palm to estimate its position in 3D space above the table.

• Poster

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• Short Paper

  Dmitry Pyryeskin, Mark Hancock, and Jesse Hoey. Extending interactions into hoverspace using reflected light. In Proc. ITS, pp. 262-263, 2011.
  DOI: 10.1145/2076354.2076406

Bibtex Entry

@inproceedings{Pyryeskin:2011:EIH:2076354.2076406,
    author = {Pyryeskin, Dmitry and Hancock, Mark and Hoey, Jesse},
    title = {Extending interactions into hoverspace using reflected light},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces},
    series = {ITS '11},
    year = {2011},
    isbn = {978-1-4503-0871-7},
    location = {Kobe, Japan},
    pages = {262--263},
    numpages = {2},
    url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2076354.2076406},
    doi = {10.1145/2076354.2076406},
    acmid = {2076406},
    publisher = {ACM},
    address = {New York, NY, USA},
    keywords = {hoverspace, multi-touch, multimodal interaction, natural human computer interaction, surface computing},
}