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Project Number

147

Title

Smart Spaces: The Untethered Interface

Description

Gesture-based interactive workspace for animation and entertainment applications.

Contact

Ali Azarbayejani

Affiliation

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Address

MIT Media Laboratory 

Perceptual Computing Section 

20 Ames Street, E15-383 

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

E-mail

WWW

Year

1996

Reference

SIGGRAPH 96 Website

Project Details

"Bulky head-mounted displays, data gloves, and severely limited movement have become synonymous with virtual environments." 

 

This project presents an approach to unencumbered, natural interfaces called Smart Spaces. The spaces are untethered because they utilize passive sensors that don't require special clothing and large format displays that don't isolate the user from their environemnt. 

 

The results support interactive spaces / workdesks that can support character animation, gesture recognition (including dance), and responsive entertainment scenarios (games).

Sight

SGI Indy, SGI Indigo, DEC Alpha, video cameras, projection TV

Sound

Yamaha amplifier

Touch

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

1 - Innovation, Custom, Research

Intent

2 - Technique (paradigm, human)

Primary

203 - interactive paradigm, technique

Secondary

104 - machine recogition

Remarks

This exhibit was not formally documented except in internal records. Subsequent reporting information can be found at: 

 

http://vismod.www.media.mit.edu/tech-reports/TR-372/ 

http://www-white.media.mit.edu/vismod/demos/smartdesk/ 

http://www-white.media.mit.edu/~ali/

 

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