XWand

August 15th, 2007

The XWand is, or was, a research project by Andy Wilson of Microsoft.

xwand

It is a wireless sensor package that enables styles of natural interaction with intelligent environments. For example, a user may point the wand at a device and control it using simpe gestures.

Project details (last updated April 2004) are available from the project page at Microsoft Research

http://research.microsoft.com/~awilson/wand

Questions raised (but not necessarily answered by this project) include:

  • What kinds of interactions do users expect? Which are they willing to learn?
  • Can the wand be used to contextualize automatic speech recognition?
  • How to combine multiple sources of noisy information to arrive at a single interpretation?
  • Can a single set of gestures span the majority of applications?
  • Is the position of the wand really needed?

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  1. KP
    April 21st, 2009 at 14:25 | #1
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    I am working on Visualisation solutions, i am looking for Wand. Is this ready for market.

  2. Mick
    April 21st, 2009 at 15:24 | #2
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    This was a research project at Microsoft and I’m not sure it ever became a commercial product – there is an email address for the original Author at the project home page

    http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/awilson/wand/default.htm

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