GESTURE BASED COMPUTING

(Four to Five Years)

The Promise of Gesture Computing for Libraries:

Beyond organizing, storing, preserving, accessing, evaluating, producing, & teaching

Will Libraries Be the Place For

INTERACTING With Information

2 Primary Forms

Touch/Surface Based Interaction

Imitative Input / Recognition Response

Touch/Surface Based: Portables

The Apple iPad

(large iPhone+)

Multi-Touch/Surface Based

Hybrid – Touch: Kno E-Textbook

The KNO Digital Textbook http:/www.kno.com

Touch/Surface: SmartDesks

Touch/Surface Based: Table Surfaces

Microsoft “Surface” at Ball State Library

Microsoft “Surface” as UI (UX) Object Recognition

Touch/Surface Based: Walls

These Walls Are Soooo 2008!

Touch/Surface: Walls

Intel Infoscape

Cubes Of Related Content

Who Is Gonna Catalog This Content?

Touch/Surface: Apps That Imitate

“Hoccer” App for iPhone/Android/Web Client

contacts, text, bookmarks, images, (coming soon - pdf & zip)

iPhone Guitar App.

Gesture Imitation/Recognition

Recognition and Response Technologies

2-Way Communication

Gesture Imitation/Recognition

Rehab

Wii Hacks

More Than A Toy Nintendo Wii

Training Surgeons

Gesture: Gaming

The Library of Congress The largest library in the world is no place for a gunfight,

but try telling that to the Drudge, our future extraterrestrial overlords.

From Conduit - Library of Congress For Nintendo Wii

Wii Walkthroughs

Gesture Imitation/Recognition

Virtual Keyboards Are Here

Oooo Look! Twitter!

Gesture Assistive Recognition

Incl. Clicking Turning Pages Moves Mouse

The “Hummer Neckband” Converts Sound Vibrations into Computer Input

Hummer Neckband Developed at Bloorview Kids Rehab in Toronto

Gesture Imitation/Recognition

Handtracking: The hardware for a new gesture-based computing system consists of nothing more than an ordinary webcam and a pair of brightly colored lycra gloves.

Gesture Imitation/Recognition

Are You Ready for a “Sixth Sense” from MIT Labs

Is Thinking a Gesture?

What’s Next?

Onto.. Visual Data Analysis