[AG-TECH] Have you seen this?

John I Quebedeaux Jr johnq at lsu.edu
Sun Aug 3 03:08:07 CDT 2003


Of course. There were a few... here is what I recall as relevant so far.

http://www.siggraph.org/s2003/conference/courses/pinhanez.html
http://www.siggraph.org/s2003/conference/courses/fisher.html
http://www.siggraph.org/s2003/conference/etech/index.html
	from which specifically:
		http://www.siggraph.org/s2003/conference/etech/access.html
		http://www.siggraph.org/s2003/conference/etech/realtime.html
		http://www.siggraph.org/s2003/conference/etech/everyday.html

-John Q.

On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 05:27  PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
>
>  From:John I Quebedeaux/johnq/LSU at mcs.anl.gov on 08/02/2003 05:27 PM 
> EST
>
>  John, can you send a reference for the this demonstration ?
>
>  On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, John I Quebedeaux Jr wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> --                                                               
>> 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
>>>
>>>  ________________
>>>  Barbara A. Kucera
>>>  Alliance/NSF EPSCoR Liaison
>>>  National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
>>>  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>>>  (217) 244-0131 * Fax (217) 244-2909
>>>
>>>  Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is
>>>  about telescopes. - Edsger W. Dijkstra, computer science
>  professor
>>
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