Project Number

216

Title

HoloWall: Interactive Digital Surfaces

Description

Interactive information display with gesture interface.

Contact

Jun Rekimoto

Affiliation

Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.

Address

3-14-13 Higashigotanda, Shinagawa-ku 
Tokyo 141-0022 Japan

E-mail

rekimoto@csl.sony.co.jp

WWW

http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/holowall

Year

1998

Reference

SIGGRAPH 98 Conference Abstracts and Applications

Project Details

"HoloWall is an interactive wall system that allows visitors to interact with digital information displayed on the wall surface without using any special pointing devices." 
 
Using a combination of infrared cameras and infrared lights installed behind the wall, HoloWall recognizes human bodies, hands, or other physical objects that are close enough to the wall surface. 
 
"HoloWall demonstrates several interactive environments including a world of autonomous digital insects that respond to body movements and an interactive sound environment that reactively creates music sequences based on the user's actions."

Sight

graphics workstation, projectors

Sound

amplified sound

Touch

infrared sensors, motion and shape analysis

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

2 - Prototype, Components, Testing

Intent

2 - Technique (paradigm, human)

Primary

205 - tangible / gesture interface

Secondary

102 - display (immer,aug,ster)

Remarks

Implementation details undocumented.

 


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