The Office of Tomorrow project aims at developing novel interfaces for collaborative workspaces, enhancing traditional face-to-face meetings. In cooperation with Voestalpine Informationstechnologie GmbH and Team7, the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences is the main contributor of this project. The project started in September 2005 and will finish in September 2008.
http://www.officeoftomorrow.org/
Shared Design Space is a multi-user design workspace which enables users to simultaneously draw on a large-scale interactive table and present their work on a touch-sensitive presentation wall. The project features high resolution tabletop projection, accurate pen tracking and novel interaction techniques for the table.
A number of technologies are combined to create this Augmented Reality setup:
- a vertical touch sensitive rear-projection surface,
- a large horizontal tabletop projection setup,
- Anoto digital pens and paper,
- integration of multiple devices (laptop, tablet PCs, etc.),
- a wireless networking setup, and the
- combination and integration of different interaction metaphors (e.g. advanced hyper-dragging, Pick&Drop, and intuitive interaction with both the table and rear-projection surface).
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sidenote: The digital pens are based on Anoto Functionality
http://www.anotofunctionality.com/
which is the same technology Iexplored a few years ago with the Personal Digital Pen from Logitech. The digital pen uses ink and handles just like a normal ballpoint pen, but it also contains a digital camera, an advanced image processing system and a communication unit, for example for wireless Bluetooth connection to a mobile phone. The paper consists of an ordinary paper provided with a dot pattern, invisible to the eye, that is either pre-printed or printed on a laser printer. The displacement of the dots, 0.1 millimetres in size, from the relative position enables them to be programmed to tell the pen the exact location on the page – or the whole pad of papers – one is writing on.
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