Video: DYI Acrylic Multi-touch FTIR Pad - Low-cost and Stylish (Anne Roudaut, Patrick Baudisch, Christian Holz, and Torsten Becker, Hasso Plattner Institute)

I came across the following video and link when I visited Jonathan Brill's Multi-touch Maven blog.  The multi-touch project was developed as part of the Patric Baudisch's Human Computer Interaction Research class at the Hasso Plattner Institute.



Detailed directions, along with pictures, can be found on the Designer Multi-touch Pad website. From there, you can download the OpenCV source code, which requires Microsoft's Visual Studio, from the project's website, along with a copy of the how-to video,  a nice shopping list, and references.


-Hasso Plattner Institut
This is what graduate students and post-docs play with!

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An easy way to build your own multi-touch surface
-Jonathan Brill

Multi-touch and Tangible Computing & the Lumino Project

Professor Patrick Baudisch and his student researchers at the Haaso Plattner Institute in Germany have focused on Human-Interaction for a quite a while.  One look at the research project page of Dr. Baudisch says it all.  Over the past few years, the human-computer interaction (HCI) teams at Hasso Plattner have explored multi-touch and tangible computing, with very interesting results.  

Take a look at the following video from Design Boom's YouTube Channel, and follow the related links for more information!


Tangible Tabletop Computing with Lumino

(The Lumino project was developed using Microsoft Surface.)


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Lumino Project Website


Lumino Team:
Professer Patrick Baudisch, Torsten Becker, Frederik Rudeck
Human Computer Interaction, Hasso Plattner Institute
"The Human Computer Interaction group headed by Prof. Dr. Patrick Baudisch is concerned with the design, implementation, and evaluation of interaction techniques, devices, and systems. More specifically, we create new ways to interact with small devices, such as mobile phones and very large display devices, such as tables and walls."


Articles/Posts
Lumino (Design Boom, no author or date)
Smart 'Lego" blocks take touch screens into 3D   Colin Barras, New Scientist (10/6/09)
"Fat Fingers" can become dainty for touch Screens   Colin Barris, New Scientist (11/24/09)


Microsoft Surface and Objects (Features Lumino "Tangible Blocks" at the 1:02 marker)