Multitouch Flash and Flex Tutorials

Here you can find great tutorials for using Flash or Flex on Ideum multitouch tables and screens. These tutorials explain how to implement basic multitouch gestures or create more complex multitouch appplications in Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex. via Multitouch Flash and Flex Tutorials & Support – Gestureworks.

GestureWorks, Supported Multitouch Hardware

GestureWorks is supported on a wide variety of commercially available hardware, including the HP TouchSmart series and Dell Studio One.GestureWorks has optimized drivers to directly interface with the touch recognition system in any multitouch-enabled Windows 7 system. GestureWorks can also be used to author applications on Ideum’s multitouch table, or on other multitouch systems that [...]

Vision 2009: Sony Atracsys video

Interview with Sony’s Arnaud Destruel’s and Atracsys’ Gaetan Marti on a futuristic PC control interface based on vision cameras. Via Vision 2009 Sony Atracsys video.

Multitouch applicatie Snowflake

Snowflake Suite is een Software Development Kit en suite met demo applicaties. Snowflake maakt het mogelijk vrij eenvoudig, aan de hand van eigen content, een showcase te maken geschikt voor multi-touch screens. De Snowflake vormt de communicatie laag tussen een software applicaties en het multi-touch hardware en stelt software ontwikkelaar in staat zelf applicaties te [...]

Multitouch Mashup

A multitouch, multiuser mashup allows visitors to explore Flickr photos geotagged into a Yahoo! Map. Users can pan and zoom the map and resize images through use of intuitive gestures. Information about each photograph can be viewed. The exhibit was designed to run on Ideum’s multitouch and multiuser table platform. The multitouch software was developed [...]

In Depth: Beyond the mouse: how input is evolving

The mouse and keyboard have survived in part because they’re inoffensive and everybody is now used to them. They’re so ingrained in our computing culture, they’ve become the benchmark – no matter how limited a QWERTY layout or two buttons might actually be.To replace them, any new user interface either has to take on a [...]

Experimental Tech Turns Your Table Into a Universal Remote

CRISTAL Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces is a research project in user interface that attempts to create a natural way of connecting with devices. The system offers a streaming video view of the living room on a tabletop, so users can can walk up to it, see the layout [...]

Touch & Write: surface computing with touch and pen input

“We received an email the other day from a group called DFKI touting their new surface computing system called Touch & Write. My initial reaction was “eh, probably just a copy of Microsoft Surface.” Didn’t really excite me, but I kept an open mind and checked out their demo. I will state right here, right [...]

Surface-like X-Desk interactive tabletop launches | T3 magazine

Microsoft’s table gets a larger rival Just a month after Microsoft’s Surface got an official launch in the UK, a rival interactive table has hit the market – and the X-Desk has size on its side. Yes, this is a 52-inch techno-table, compared to the 30 inches offered by the Surface. But as we all [...]

Microsoft – Surface

What are the key capabilities of Microsoft Surface? Microsoft Surface has four key capabilities that make it such a unique experience: Direct interaction. Users can grab digital information with their hands and interact with content on-screen by touch and gesture – without using a mouse or keyboard. Multi-user experience. The large, horizontal, 30 inch display [...]