[AG-TECH] Have you seen this?

[John I Quebedeaux Jr]

I just got back from SIGGRAPH in San Diego. Some of the areas of 
technology presented was using sensing technology to design and 
research interactive spaces... which included positioning what you 
wanted to view via projector on any wall that you happened to be near. 
This used projectors (with a mounted motorized mirror) and cameras just 
like we using in the AG rooms. It would use a mirror to aim the 
projection at any appropriate surface. The cameras were used to "see" 
what you were doing and where you were looking and react accordingly. 
The computer tracking was very good with multiple people in that it 
would not be distracted and track someone else - it "locked on" and you 
couldn't shake it loose! (except by leaving the area it tracked. 
<grin>).

So, in terms of the AG, position the projection on the wall that the 
subject was next to or looking at.... even down on the table.... all 
based on where you focus your attention. I couldn't help thinking about 
the AG and how this technology might be applied.

They also showed projecting your "desktop" at any surface you wished to 
use as well as interacting with it by having a camera watch you (making 
any surface a "touch screen"). I wouldn't mind having my data screen 
presented on the table/wall/where ever where I can point and gesture 
and control from.

-John Q.

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John I. Quebedeaux, Jr.
Computer Manager / Louisiana Biomedical Research Network
LSU Biological Sciences / 131 Life Sciences
e-mail: johnq at lsu.edu / web: http://lbrn.lsu.edu
phone: 225-578-0062 / fax: 225-578-2597

On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 08:01  AM, Barbara A. Kucera wrote:
>
>  From:John I Quebedeaux/johnq/LSU at ncsa.uiuc.edu on 08/01/2003 10:01 AM 
> EST
>
>  Hi Bob,
>
>  I came across this and immediately thought of the AG . . . and how
>  to avoid
>  having empty AGs displayed on the wall.
>
>  http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_072903.asp
>
>  Barbara
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