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 new technique for optical sensing through thin form-factor displays. It accepts the detection of fingers, objects near the display surface. Basically a regular LCD screen is turn into a sensing surface that can be used for multi-touch and tangible computing applications. Emphasis is both on the underlying hardware and software aspects , as well as the interaction techniques and application
Multi-Touch Guides Archive
After i posted about Rosie Multitouch Coffee Table, i then learnt about an other similar technology which is called as Tangent – A MultiTouch Surface, which was being developed since several years Tangent is built on the multi-touch research platform and used as a digital medium for research,testing and developing innovative and new multitouch interaction techniques. Tangent offers a direct interface to manipulate virtual objects by making it possible to touch and interact with these objects. Tangent asks for fundamentally different interaction principles than the ones known from traditional interfaces, similar to microsoft surface. In the project phase Tangent was developed and built and a range (set) of interaction principles were designed and implemented. Hardware: It uses a tabletop multi-touch surface consisting of a rear