Transparent-display mobile devices have long been the focus on concept designs and visions of the future of interactive technologies. Taking the lead in commercializing such devices, some manufactures have release very basic phones such as the Lenove S800, without much success. Transparent mobiles present new challenges like where to locate the batteries or the perception…
If you are working on mid-air interactions or hand gestures for interacting remotely with a computer, or for creating the next augmented reality (AR) gadget, then you will certainly encounter that your novel hand-wavvy mid-air ironman-like interface is REALLY tiresome. And that’s no small problem. Known as the gorilla arm effect, this phenomenon was one…
Last week was the third international ACM workshop on Personalized access to cultural heritage (PATCH ’14). Given our current work with the Winnipeg Art Gallery on interactive cases for Inuit Art, we sent a short paper describing the design framework we are using to design such cases. Unfortunately, none of the authors could travel to…
My previous post shows examples of color correction for two images (IronMan and a Rhino) over different backgrounds. I have been asked whether color correction can run in real-time and thus we’ve created a video showcasing just that: real-time color correction. As you can see we can turn it on and off, and achieve acceptable…
UPDATE: I have created a video example showcasing the real-time implementation. Last year we published a paper at the Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST ’13) conference on the topic of color correction for see-through displays. The paper proposes a solution to color blending, which is the phenomenon where colors in transparent displays look “washed-out”; i.e. the…
Lee Semel (@Semel) has twitted me a video of Ignorify – a parody app that aims at letting people completely ignore the real world coz, you know, the real world is for old people and there is no reason to take your eyes off the phone 🙂 The video is really funny, and I enjoyed…
Ever since CrashAlert got covered by Rachel Metz the MIT Technology Review last week (see Safe Texting While Walking? Soon, There May Be an App for That) there has been a series of reactions on the social media. Well, negative reactions are included in the article itself with Prof. Clifford Nass describing it as “the…
The last week I received the notification of acceptance for the two papers we worked on so hard in the spring. The first one was submitted to Ubicomp and it’s about the Rabbit a fantastic project where I have been doing hardware, software, interaction techniques, UI design, etc. In this paper I collaborated with Aurelien…
TagCloud from my thesis proposal Latex source!
Hello All, As a good salesman is to be able to push his product in a few lines, researchers are expected to present their work in a few lines as well. The hypothetical case is to be in the elevator and meet that famous professor you want to pay a visit in his lab. He…
Hello All, OK, I know I have been pretty quite lately with this blog, but today I will tell you what has been keeping me busy. First of all: University. I have just been notified that my PhD work has been accepted for the Doctoral Colloquium at Pervasive 2009 in Nara, Japan. You can just…
Hello All, Now you can all visit the website that I have created (or that I am still creating) for the P2P Game Network Framework. It has been set up using the hosting services of SourceForge.NET and the cool PHPWCMS. From there you can download the framework, the documentation (which I will translate into English),…
Hey all, I have got very good news about the P2P Network Framework: It has been accepted for being hosted in SourceForge.net. For now, I can tell you the web URL (http://p2pgnf.sourceforge.net/) but there is nothing there yet. I will be providing CVS access (LGPL license), white papers, articles, examples, screenshots, webcasts and even a…
Today is the third day in a row that I have been working on my thesis. I took a week off work and confined myself to my room, my laptop and my flickering internet connection. If you feel a little interested about it, we (Andres Castano and me) designing and coding a framework for P2P…
Juan David Hincapié-Ramos 