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| SlimComputer and PC Decrapifier Safely Uninstall Unnecessary Pre-Installed Software Posted: 07 Apr 2011 12:00 AM PDT
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ICT MxR Lab's Response to Google's "April Fools Day" Gmail Motion, using OpenNI and FAAST |
| ICT MxR Lab's Response to Google's "April Fools Day" Gmail Motion, using OpenNI and FAAST Posted: 05 Apr 2011 03:21 PM PDT I recently purchased a Kinect and have been chomping at the bit to do something creative with it. I have been too busy with work to dive into a project. Fortunately, great minds have been paving the way! I was almost fooled by Google's April Fools prank, "Gmail Motion", a mythical application designed to allow Gmailers the opportunity to conduct email tasks through gestures alone. Robert Kosara, an assistant professor of computer science at UNC-Charlotte, and author of the EagerEyes visualization blog, recently shared a link to a video of a working prototype of the Gmail Motion concept. The video features Evan Suma, a post-doc at USC who earned his Ph.D. at UNC-Charlotte. "This morning, Google introduced Gmail Motion, allowing users to control Gmail using gestures and body movement. However, for whatever reason, their application doesn't appear to work. So, we demonstrate our solution - the Software Library Optimizing Obligatory Waving (SLOOW) - and show how it can be used with a Microsoft Kinect sensor to control Gmail using the gestures described by Google. This project uses OpenNI coupled with FAAST and was made by Evan Suma and the folks at Mark Bolas' MxR Lab at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies." Below is the video that almost had me fooled on April 1st : ) > RELATED FAAST Video Gallery Download FAAST from the USC ICT FAAST website. University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies (USC ICT) The FAAST website has loads of additional "how-to" information. The list below is just a sample of what can be found on the site: To use FAAST, you will need to download and install the following software:
FAAST should then run out-of-the-box; no additional installation or setup is necessary. If you encounter an error on startup, you may also need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package. http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com   |
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INTERACTIVE TABLETOPS AND SURFACES 2011 CALL FOR PAPERS AND NOTES (6th Annual ACM ITS 2011 - Nov. 13-16) |
| Posted: 03 Apr 2011 08:31 AM PDT 6th Annual ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2011 ITS 2011 November 13-16, 2011 Portopia Hotel, Kobe, Japan The Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2011 Conference (ITS) is a premiere venue for presenting research in the design and use of new and emerging tabletop and interactive surface technologies. As a new community, we embrace the growth of the discipline in a wide variety of areas, including innovations in ITS hardware, software, design, and projects expanding our understanding of design considerations of ITS technologies and of their applications. Building on their success in previous years, ITS again features Papers and Notes presentations, as well as tutorials, posters, demonstrations tracks and a doctoral symposium. ITS 2011 will also include workshops. ITS 2011 will bring together top researchers and practitioners who are interested in both the technical and human aspects of ITS technology. On behalf of the conference organizing committee, we invite you to begin planning your submissions and participation for this year's conference! CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PAPERS AND NOTES The use of interactive surfaces is an exciting and emerging research area. Display technologies, such as projectors, LCD and OLED flat panels, and even flexible display substrates, coupled with input sensors capable of enabling direct interaction, make it reasonable to envision a not-so-distant future in which many of the common surfaces in our environment will function as digital interactive displays. ITS brings together researchers and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds and interests, such as camera and projector based systems, new display technologies, multi-touch sensing, user interface technologies, augmented reality, computer vision, multimodal interaction, novel input and sensing technologies, computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), and information visualization. The intimate size of this single-track symposium provides an ideal venue for leading researchers and practitioners to exchange research results and experiences. We encourage submissions on (but not limited to) the following topic areas as they relate to interactive tabletops and surfaces: * Gesture-based interfaces * Multi-modal interfaces * Tangible interfaces * Novel interaction techniques * Data handling/exchange on large interactive surfaces * Data presentation on large interactive surfaces * Software engineering methods * Computer supported collaborative work * Middleware and network support * Virtual reality and augmented reality * Social protocols * Information visualizations * Hardware, including sensing and input technologies with novel capabilities * Human-centered design & methodologies * Applications CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Conference Co-Chairs Jun Rekimoto, The University of Tokyo / SonyCSL, Japan Hideki Koike, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Kentaro Fukuchi, Meiji University, Japan Program Co-Chairs Yoshifumi Kitamura, Tohoku University, Japan Daniel Wigdor, University of Toronto, Canada SUBMISSIONS Papers/Notes: We invite paper submissions of two kinds: Papers (10 pages) and Notes (4 pages). Papers must present original, highly innovative, prospective and forward-looking research, possibly in one or more of the themes given above. Notes must also report novel and complete research, but where the scope and scale of the contribution is more focused and succinct than papers. Submissions must be submitted as a single PDF file in the ACM format through the submission system. A template for submissions can be found on the ITS website (http://its2011.jp/). All accepted submissions will be presented at ITS 2011 and appear in the ITS digital proceedings and be archived in the ACM digital library. IMPORTANT DATES Paper/Note Submissions: June 30, 2011 Paper/Note Author Notifications: September 2, 2011 Paper/Note Camera-Ready Deadline: October 21, 2011 RELATED ITS 2010 Awards
 ITS 2010Conference General Chairs ITS 2010 Organization Committee Daniel Wigdor, one of the ITS 2011Program Co-chairs, co-authored the following book with Dennis Wixon. The book has not yet been released. Brave NUI World: Designing User Interfaces for Touch and Gesture  Note: This post includes links, please let me know of anything I should correct. http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com   |
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Raymond.CC Blog: “5 GFI VIPRE Antivirus Lifetime License Giveaway” plus 1 more |
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