Archive for November, 2007

Microsoft Surface Table Delayed – Picky Customers to Blame

Unfortunately for electronic table fetishists everywhere, you won’t be able to walk into a restaurant, a casino or a retail outlet and play with a MicrosoftSurface table until spring of next year. Why isn’t it surfacing until then? Partners.
Partners who need Microsoft’s help to build custom apps to fit Harrah’s, Sheraton and T-Mobile needs for [...]


Human-Machine Interaction Research Notes from Shahram

Shahram is a researcher at Microsoft specializing in
* Novel user interfaces and input
* Interactive displays/surfaces
* Tabletop computing systems
* Tangible computing
* Multi-display environments
* hardware and recognition techniques for interactive systems
* Technologies for domains outside the office e.g. the home or public spaces
* Mobile User Interfaces and infrastructures
About His Current and Past Projects….
ThinSight: this project navigates a [...]


Dual-Resolution Touch Screen TableTop System Unveiled

Researchers from the National Taiwan University have unveiled the i-m-Top a rear-projection, interactive, dual-resolution tabletop system, which can turn the top of an ordinary desk into a 120×80cm touchscreen display.
According to the researchers at the university’s Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, the system makes use of infrared sensors to detect the motions [...]


Microsoft Surface Team Starts Blogging

Microsoft Surface Team has started its blog, thereby helping many Surface Computing enthusiasts to interact and learn about the latest developments within their group.
Announcements Surface News
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