Project Number
- 235
Title
- HandSCAPE
Description
- An orientation-aware digital measuring tape for computer modeling inputs.
Contact
- Jay Lee
Affiliation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Address
- MIT Media Laboratory
- 20 Ames Street, E15-425
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- 20 Ames Street, E15-425
- jaylee@media.mit.edu
WWW
Year
- 1999
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "HandSCAPE is an orientation-aware digital measuring tape."
- "While a traditional measuring tape only measures linear distance, the addition of orientation sensors allows a vector measurement of both length and direction, and the tape can serve as an input device to computer drawing and modeling applications."
- Once models are generated, users can manipulate them in their digital domain. "HandSCAPE preserves reliance on human senses and skills by referring to the familiar process of measuring objects and spaces."
Sight
- graphics workstation, projection display
Sound
Touch
- spatial tracking system, measuring tape
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Secondary
- 104 - machine recogition
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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