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This is too cool. I cannot wait to try how a manipulatable material and holographic interface feels. Glad to see Bret Victor's important rant[1] resonating as

This is too cool. I cannot wait to try how a manipulatable material and holographic interface feels. Glad to see Bret Victor's important rant[1] resonating as well. Does anyone have any tips about getting involved with this area of work? Any good forums or open source projects? [1] http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...

raphman 14y ago
There is little "open source" research on hardware for novel user interfaces. Most of this stuff is published at scientific conferences like CHI, UIST, ITS, TEI. As "novelty" is quite important for publishing one's work at these conferences, there is little incentive for doing open research. Some nice stuff and communities can be found at http://nuigroup.com/forums http://nuigroup.com/forums or http://hackaday.com/ http://hackaday.com/ (btw: Bret Victor apparently pulished his rant _after_ Touché had been submitted to CHI.)
- pirateking 14y ago
  I figured. Thanks for the links though, lots of interesting stuff there. (I remember seeing this video when it was posted months ago as well, but thanks for clarifying the timing as to which event came first.)
GuiA 14y ago
>Does anyone have any tips about getting involved with this area of work? Do a PhD :) ralphman has it spot on. Even the non-academic companies who do this (Disney Research, Microsoft Research, etc.) will usually prefer hiring PhDs. Doing a PhD in HCI is fun, challenging, will drive you insane, and is very rewarding! (I dropped out of mine after 2 years to do the startup thing but intend on going back :) )
gregsq 14y ago
There's lots of prior art here, thinking of patents. You might want to look at Atmel's maXTouch capacitive sensors. In particular what's going on with the noise floor, or signal to noise that's a relevant factor for resolution [1]. And a side band attack btw. Infrared sensors are affected greatly by environmental infrared, so dual transmitter types and fast switch sampling and interferometric approaches. You'll need to consider high sampling rates both in the time and frequency domains. There's other stuff but I'll keep mum about that. 1. http://www.atmel.com/microsite/maxtouch_eseries/ http://www.atmel.com/microsite/maxtouch_eseries/

raphman 14y ago

There is little "open source" research on hardware for novel user interfaces. Most of this stuff is published at scientific conferences like CHI, UIST, ITS, TEI. As "novelty" is quite important for publishing one's work at these conferences, there is little incentive for doing open research. Some nice stuff and communities can be found at http://nuigroup.com/forums http://nuigroup.com/forums or http://hackaday.com/ http://hackaday.com/ (btw: Bret Victor apparently pulished his rant _after_ Touché had been submitted to CHI.)

pirateking 14y ago
I figured. Thanks for the links though, lots of interesting stuff there. (I remember seeing this video when it was posted months ago as well, but thanks for clarifying the timing as to which event came first.)

GuiA 14y ago

>Does anyone have any tips about getting involved with this area of work? Do a PhD :) ralphman has it spot on. Even the non-academic companies who do this (Disney Research, Microsoft Research, etc.) will usually prefer hiring PhDs. Doing a PhD in HCI is fun, challenging, will drive you insane, and is very rewarding! (I dropped out of mine after 2 years to do the startup thing but intend on going back :) )

gregsq 14y ago

There's lots of prior art here, thinking of patents. You might want to look at Atmel's maXTouch capacitive sensors. In particular what's going on with the noise floor, or signal to noise that's a relevant factor for resolution [1]. And a side band attack btw. Infrared sensors are affected greatly by environmental infrared, so dual transmitter types and fast switch sampling and interferometric approaches. You'll need to consider high sampling rates both in the time and frequency domains. There's other stuff but I'll keep mum about that. 1. http://www.atmel.com/microsite/maxtouch_eseries/ http://www.atmel.com/microsite/maxtouch_eseries/