[digital pen and palettes]

Shared Design Space:

Shared Design Space is a project created by our research group at the Interactive Media Lab at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg. It's purpose is to demonstrate various possible interfaces for future office environments in a fun way. The project was created by a team of five members and first demonstrated at the Siggraph Emerging Technologies 2006.
While the project implementation was a collaborative group effort, my main part was programming the software that connects with the pens to allow direct interaction on the table. I did that in C# using Visual Studio 2005.

Setup:

Users can create collaborative drawings on the table surface with the use of digital pens. These drawings can then be sent to the interactive wall where they can be viewed and browsed with hand gestures. A more detailled description can be found on the official project website: http://www.officeoftomorrow.org

Images:

Click on one of the thumbnails to open a larger view (1600x1200).

Publications:

Haller, M., Brandl, P., Leithinger D., Leitner J., Seifried T., Billinghurst, M.
Shared Design Space: Sketching ideas using digital pens and a large augmented tabletop setup,
in ICAT 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4282, Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 948-959, 2006.
(description at springerlink.com)

Haller, M., Leithinger, D., Leitner, J., Seifried, T., Brandl, P., Zauner, J., Billinghurst, M.
The Shared Design Space,
in ACM SIGGRAPH 2006, Emerging Technologies, August 2006, Boston, USA.
(description at acm.org)

Demos and Conferences:

- 08.09.06: Disney, New Technology Forum, Los Angeles, USA (Demo)
- 31.08.06 - 05.09.06: Ars Electronica Festival, Pixelspaces Exhibition, Linz, Austria (Demo)
- 30.07.06 - 03.08.06: ACM SIGGRAPH 2006, Emerging Technologies, Boston, USA (Demo)

Awards and Nomations:

- Laval Virtual ReVolution Award 2007 Winner
- Top Talent Award 2006: Nominated in the category "Content Tools and Interfacedesign"
- Media Gala 2006: Winner in the category "Media-Technology".

Links:

Official project website: http://www.officeoftomorrow.org
Siggraph: http://www.siggraph.org/
Ars Electronica: http://www.aec.at
Media Gala: http://www.mediagala.net
Europrix Top Talent Award: http://www.toptalent.europrix.org/ Laval Virtual: http://www.laval-virtual.org

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