"ZeroTouch" becomes a multi-touchable screen anywhere

Conference on computer-human interaction in Vancouver,CHI2011So, technology that can be multi-touch screen anywhere appeared.

Compared with other multi-touch technologies, this technology excels in that it does not matter what the display is.

What kind of things are working, the following movies.
ZeroTouch [interface ecology lab | research]

YouTube - CHI 2011: Student project creates multi-touch force field


Although men are holding hands in a strange frame, this is "ZeroTouch".


Even if you hold your hand in the air it reacts properly.



As a mechanism, the frame has a total of 256 infrared sensors in this way, making an invisible spider web-like field in the frame, which is sensing the movement in it.


It is like this how to perceive it. It senses what touches a spider web sensor, so it can be multi-touchable.


It can also be used in this way by overlaying on an ordinary display.



In addition, this video explains how to move it more easily.

(MOV file)http://ecologylab.net/research/images/zerotouch.mov


How it reacts to the sensor is shown in the wipe on the lower left.


I installed ZeroTouch on a screen imitating a water surface.


When you touch the screen in this state, it shows a reaction as if it actually took place in the water.


Of course you can also operate images such as magnifying and moving.


What developedTexas A & M University· Jon Moeller of Interface Ecology Lab and Andruid Kerne. For details, refer to "(PDF file) ZeroTouch: A Zero-Thickness Optical Multi-Touch Force FieldIt is written in.