by Digital Labs Paris & Ayotle
AnyTouch is a prototype that can make any object tactile. Based on computer vision software Ayotle provides, designers and engineers from Digital Labs Paris build this project. The original idea comes from the popularity of tactile used in screen interaction. Their goal is to make everything tactile for human's interactions.
Technology: based on the association of a 3D camera and a vision software designed by Ayotle, AnyTouch turns any attributes of an object (like shape, color, volume, etc.) into interactive elements. In addition, it even can detect the user's gestures.
Interaction: the user places any object on a white paper which is within the range of the 3D camera. Then the user sets the control for the object by drawing sketches around it (e.g. drawing a slider for a block, so moving the block can be as an input of the slider). Then the camera captures the objects and sketches and processes the data collected. As a result, user's control and interaction with the object would be interpreted as input to digital content. So the human's manipulations on daily objects are effect operations on virtual bits.
Value: AnyTouch tells the story that anything could be a trigger for users to access digital world. With certain modern technology, we have the ability to make things tactile and interactive, maybe in an augmented way or maybe in a more mechanical way.
Project #2: Super Angry Birds
by CIID
Super Angry Birds is a SUPER tangible version of "Angry Birds".
Technology: basically, this project adopts the theory of a motorised fader and records the value of the curve the user draws by MAX/MSP and Arduino.
Interaction: Firstly, the user draws a force line and the datas of this line are stored in the table. Then the project sends the current position of the slider through the table and the extracts the value to send to the motor that applies an opposing force.
Value: It is definitely interesting!
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