(Collaborative) Design Project
The motivation behind the CDP interdisciplinary research project is to resolve the current discrepancy between familiar, analogue ways of working in the early architectural design stages and the ever increasing use of digital tools in office practice. The project’s objective is the conception and prototypical realisation of an interactive work environment for use in the early design phases. By directly linking familiar analogue ways of working with digital computer aided design tools, the CDP represents a working environment that allows designers to work the way they are used to while...
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Tangible Anchoring explores potential practices for news reporting and analysis afforded by the convergence of tabletop computing, mobile usergenerated content, the Web, and broadcast media channels. Tangible Anchoring visualizes polling data in a TV studio setup. The polling data is collected via mobile phones. This data is used in political debates in TV, where one anchor and two political discussants interact with the data on a multitouch table. The data can be explored by using finger and tangible objects. Three additional monitors in the studio show the data on the table as well as...
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SpeedUp supports the emergency management through mobile and stationary devices. A multitouch table gives an overview over the current circumstances during the time-critical situation in a mass casualty incidient, which involves a huge number of patients. A 2d map shows the current positions of the patients and of the relief units. Incident commanders interact with the map through simple and intuitive gestures. Further research was done with focus on information visualization. Speedup is a nation wide project in cooperation with several academical and industrial...
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Multiple 3D user interfaces are investigated to explore 3D scientific simulations, like the visualisation of complex flow fields. Different possible user interfaces like a multitouch display and an accelerometer-based controller are tested as interaction devices. Our research focus on the multitouch display is to find appropriate gestures for the manipulation of the 3d visualisation. This is an interdisciplinary project in cooperation with the Institute of Aerodynamics. ...
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Over 20 years people have fun playing Tetris. The popularity comes from very simple but challenging rules. It is time to extend this game classic to a tangible multiplayer Game.TUMtris is a tangible multiplayer Tetris game on a multitouch table. One, two or up to 4 players are able to play against each other or in cooperation on a multitouch table. Tangible 3d tokens are used for game playing, which have the shape of Tetris tokens. The project was implemented during Simon Schenk’s Bachelor thesis. He won the Meister-Coder-Preis, which is a price for an excellent Bachelor thesis...
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