Tag Archives: human computer interface

Multitouch Control Screen Turns Swarm Robotics Into a Game of StarCraft (video)

Mark Micire’s PhD dissertation puts robotic control at his fingertips. The UMass Lowell student developed a command and control program [...]

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Tan Le Demos Headset That Reads Brainwaves (video)

Tan Le isn’t just interested in reading your mind, she wants to have fun while doing it. Le is one [...]

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Nanowire Polymer Film Turns Any Surface into a Multitouch Interface

Portuguese engineers have taken us one step closer to fusing the digital and physical worlds. Displax, a fledgling tech company [...]

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Body Suit Controls Robot With Gestures (Video)

Of all the ways you could command a robot, turning your body into a game controller sounds like the most [...]

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Hand Gesture Controls Trying For Mainstream in 2010 (video)

The modern age of electronics is turning everyone into royalty. We have court jesters (TV), scholars (computers), and scribes (office [...]

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Lumino Adds Third Dimension to Microsoft Surface (Video)

It never fails: give scientists a new bit of technology and they’ll find a way to use it to play [...]

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New Hitachi TV Controlled By Gestures (Video)

In some households, fighting over the TV remote is a raging nightly battle. In mine it’s more of a cold [...]

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Q2 Cube – No Dials, Just Internet Radio

As devices become more and more complex, they have the potential to become too difficult for humans to control. Hence [...]

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BumpTop Brings Multi-Touch to The Computer Desktop

Do you ever wish you could just reach out and move the icons on your computer desktop around the same [...]

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The Next Generation in Human Computer Interfaces

For decades our options for interacting with the digital world have been limited to keyboards, mice, and joysticks. Now with [...]

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