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Welcome to the Human Media Lab Blog
The Human Media Lab is one of Canada's premier media laboratories. Its mandate is to develop disruptive technologies and new ways of working with computers that are viable 10 to 20 years from now. We are currently working on the design of Organic User Interfaces (Oui!), an exciting new paradigm that allows computers to have any shape or form.
Special Issue of Communications of the ACM on Organic UI
The special issue of Communications of the ACM on Organic User Interface, guest edited by Roel Vertegaal and Ivan Poupyrev is available at www.organicui.org
Displax Flexible Touch Skin
Displax introduces a flexible capacitive multitouch film. If this is real, every OUI will have one.
DisplayObjects: A designer workbench of interactive styrofoam
DisplayObjects, by Eric Akaoka, is an organic user interface for creating computer displays on arbitrary surfaces, such as pieces of model cardboard or blocks of styrofoam. It allows easy prototyping of hardware gadgets through software/hardware fusion. The system tracks the location of the model, as well as the finger, via markers tracked through computer vision, and renders a 3D software model of the object back onto the hardware model through projection.
Paper
Akaoka, E., Ginn, T. and R. Vertegaal. DisplayObjects: Prototyping Functional Physical Interfaces on 3D Styrofoam, Paper or Cardboard Models. In Proceedings of TEI 2010. Cambridge, MA: ACM Press, 2010.
Video Paper
Akaoka, E. and Vertegaal, R. 2009. DisplayObjects: functional prototyping on real objects. In Proceedings of the 27th international Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA, USA, April 04 - 09, 2009). CHI EA '09. ACM, New York, NY, 3507-3508 Video (MOV)
